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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 26: Mary's sorrow over Christ's death / 26c: Adam and Eve mourn for the slain Abel / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 26: Mary's sorrow over Christ's death / 26c: Adam and Eve mourn for the slain Abel / Original composition: Adam and Eve hold the body of Abel between them
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 26: Mary's sorrow over Christ's death / 26d: Noemi mourning for her sons / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 26: Mary's sorrow over Christ's death / 26d: Noemi mourning for her sons / Original composition: Noemi standing between her daughters
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Ruth / Ruth 1:5 (and 1:20): Noemi and her daughter-in-law lament over the death of her husband and her sons / Type for the Descent from the Cross (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / Adam and Eve lament Abel's death / Type for the Descent from the Cross (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Deposition of Christ / with Adam and Eve lamenting Abel's death (non-biblical, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Deposition of Christ / with Ruth 1:5 (and 1:20): Noemi laments over the death of her husband and her sons (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Genesis / Cain and Abel / Adam and Eve lament Abel's death (Comestor)
Old Testament / Ruth / Elimelech and his family in Moab (Ruth 1:1-5) / Noemi, Ruth and Orpha as widows (cf. Ruth 1:5)

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: 30r.

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