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Modern / Comestor, Petrus / Historia Scholastica / Non-biblical Episodes / Daniel - Nabuchodonosor's body cut into 300 parts and fed to 300 birds
RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Cod.theol.et phil.fol.122, part 2 (Elchingen, Swabia, 1459)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 25: The dead Christ mocked and pierced with a lance / 25d: Evil-Merodach cuts the body of his father Nabuchodonosor in 300 parts and feeds them to 300 birds / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 25: The dead Christ mocked and pierced with a lance / 25d: Evil-Merodach cuts the body of his father Nabuchodonosor in 300 parts and feeds them to 300 birds / Variant: Nabuchodonosor's body on the ground, Evil-Merodach holding one arm, preparing to cut it off
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Date
1459
Location
Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Cod.theol.et phil.fol.122
Book, text or document (source of image)
unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 76r.
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