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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Hs. 5970 (Bredt 78, Kapsel 1595 - loose fragments, incomplete set)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 33: Ascension / 33b: Jacob's dream of the Ladder / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 33: Ascension / 33b: Jacob's dream of the Ladder / Original composition: One ladder, God not shown
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 33: Ascension / 33d: Ascension of Elias / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 33: Ascension / 33d: Ascension of Elias / Variant: Elias in the chariot, Eliseus not present
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Genesis / Gen. 28:12-15: Jacob's dream of the ladder / Type for the Ascension (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 4 Kings / 4 Kings 2:11-12: Assumption of Elias / Type for the Ascension of Christ (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Ascension of Christ / with Gen. 28:12-15: Jacob's dream of the ladder (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Ascension of Christ / with 4 Kings 2:11-12: Assumption of Elias (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Genesis / Jacob / Jacob's dream of the ladder (Gen. 28:11-22) / Jacob sees in his dream the angels ascending and descending the ladder (Gen. 28:12-15)
Old Testament / 4 Kings (A.V. II Kings) / Assumption of Elias and first miracles of Eliseus (4 Kings 2) / Assumption of Elias (4 Kings 2:11) / Elias in a chariot, Eliseus not present

Further details

Here, images 33b (Jacob's ladder) and 33c (Good Shepherd) have changed places

Artist or creator

Franconian or
Bohemian

Date

1400 (circa)

Location

Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Hs. 5970 (Kapsel-Nr. 1595, Bredt 78)

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis.

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