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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Cologne, Historisches Archiv, Best. 7020 (W (asterisk)) 105 (probably Cologne, second half 14th century)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 31: Christ delivering the Fathers from Limbo / 31c: Abraham delivered from the fire / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 31: Christ delivering the Fathers from Limbo / 31c: Abraham delivered from the fire / Original composition: God pulls Abraham from the fire (symmetrical)
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / Abraham is thrown into the fire in Ur and rescued by God / Type for the Liberation of the Fathers from Limbo (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Harrowing of Hell / with Abraham delivered by God from the fire in Ur (Comestor, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ delivering the souls from limbo)
Old Testament / Genesis / Abraham and Isaac / Youth of Abraham / Abraham thrown into a fire in Ur and liberated by God (Comestor) / Abraham pulled out of the fire by God

Further details

Artist or creator

Cologne (attributed)

Date

14th century (second half)

Location

Cologne, Historisches Archiv, Best. 7020 (W (with asterisk)) 105

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis.

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