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RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS 281-283 (2140) (Rhineland, c1390)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 16: Last Supper / 16d: Abraham meets the priest Melchisedech who sacrifices bread and wine / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 16: Last Supper / 16d: Abraham meets the priest Melchisedech who sacrifices bread and wine / Variant: Abraham, sometimes with companions, kneeling before Melchisedech who holds bread and a flagon
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Genesis / Gen. 14:14: Melchisedech offers bread and wine / Type for the Last Supper (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Last Supper / with Gen. 14:18: Melchisedech offers bread and wine (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Genesis / Abraham and Isaac / Abraham and Lot, Melchisedech / Melchisedech, holding bread and wine, encounters and blesses Abraham (Gen. 14:19)
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Further details
Artist or creator
Rhineland from Steinhaus monastery near Wuppertal
Date
1390 (circa)
Location
Brussels, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, 281-283 (cat. no. 2140)
Book, text or document (source of image)
unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 20r.
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