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RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

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 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 / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 31: Christ delivering the Fathers from Limbo / 31d: Lot escaping from Sodom / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 31: Christ delivering the Fathers from Limbo / 31d: Lot escaping from Sodom / Variant: Lot and his family walking, between them and Sodom the pillar of salt
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Genesis / Gen. 19:23-26: Lot escapes from Sodom, his wife is turned into a pillar of salt / Type for the Delivery of the Fathers from Limbo (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
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)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Harrowing of Hell / with Gen. 19:23-26: Lot escapes from Sodom, his wife is turned into a pillar of salt (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
Old Testament / Genesis / Abraham and Isaac / Lot and the destruction of Sodom / Lot's and his family escape from Sodom (Gen. 19:23, 26) / With Lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt

Further details

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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