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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Darmstadt, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Hs 2505 (Cologne or Westfalia, c1360)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 25: The dead Christ mocked and pierced with a lance / 25c: Absalom, already wounded by lances, is attacked with swords / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 25: The dead Christ mocked and pierced with a lance / 25c: Absalom, already wounded by lances, is attacked with swords / Original composition: In the middle Absalom hanging from the tree, pierced by three spears, at the left and right a soldier attacking him with a sword
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 2 Kings / 2 Kings 18:14-15: Absalom is attacked first with three spears and then with swords / Type for the Crucifixion (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the mocking of Christ on the Cross)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Crucifixion / with 2 Kings 18:14-15: Absalom is attacked first with three spears and then with swords (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the Mocking of Christ on the Cross)
Old Testament / 2 Kings (A.V. II Samuel) / David and Absalom (2 Kings 15-19) / Joab's men attack Absalom with swords (2 Kings 18:15)

Further details

Here, images 25b (Michol) and 25c (Absalom) have changed places

Artist or creator

Cologne or
Westphalian

Date

1360 (circa)

Location

Darmstadt, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Hs 2505

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 46v.

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