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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek, Oettingen-Wallersteinsche Bibliothek Cod.I.2.2.23 (South-Western Germany, c1350)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 16: Last Supper / 16d: Abraham meets the priest Melchisedech who sacrifices bread and wine / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 16: Last Supper / 16d: Abraham meets the priest Melchisedech who sacrifices bread and wine / Variant: Abraham, sometimes with companions, kneeling before Melchisedech who holds a ciborium or a monstrance only
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Genesis / Gen. 14:14: Melchisedech offers bread and wine / Type for the Last Supper (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Further details
The images of chapter 16c-d appear both on 19v (with 16c only sketched) and on 20r, in order to ensure that in the remainder of the manuscript each chapter appears on one opening
Artist or creator
German (southwest) probably since the 15th century in St Mang's Abbey, Füssen
Date
1350 (circa)
Location
Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod.I.2.2.23 (Oettingen-Wallersteinsche Bibliothek)
Book, text or document (source of image)
unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 20r.
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