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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek, Oettingen-Wallersteinsche Bibliothek Cod.I.2.2.24 (Nuremberg, 1456)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 17: The soldiers who come to arrest Christ fall to the ground / 17d: David kills eight hundred enemies / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 17: The soldiers who come to arrest Christ fall to the ground / 17d: David kills eight hundred enemies / Variant: David with sword over head but without shield, enemies lying at his feet
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 2 Kings / 2 Kings 23:8: David, although like a tender little worm of the wood, killed eight-hundred enemies / Type for the soldiers who came to arrest Christ falling to the ground (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / The soldiers fall back / with 2 Kings 23:8: David, although like a tender little worm of the wood, killed eight-hundred enemies (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / 2 Kings (A.V. II Samuel) / The Three Valiant Men (2 Kings 23) / David, despite being tender like a woodworm, once killed eight hundred Egyptians (2 Kings 23:8, in some translations not David but Adino or Hachmonis, one of his heroes)

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Nuremberg

Date

1456

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Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod.I.2.2.24 (Oettingen-Wallersteinsche Bibliothek)

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 38r.

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