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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Printed editions / Augsburg: Schönsperger, 1492
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 / Variant: Abraham in the mouth of hell
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)
Life of Christ / Ministry / Parables / Lazarus and Dives (Lc. 16:19-31) / Dives in Hell and Lazarus in the Bosom of Abraham

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The image is used for the delivery of Abraham but probably was designed to show the fates of Lazarus and Dives

Artist or creator

Augsburg

Date

1492

Location

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Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Colophon: Hye endet sich der spiegel menschlicher behaltnuß mitsampt den Ewangelien vnd Episteln durch das gancz jar (GW M43008). Augsburg (Schönsperger). 1492 (November 9). Folio: 142v.
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