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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Ms. germ. fol. 245 (Middle Rhine, c1440-1450)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 11: Fall of idols during the Flight into Egypt / 11c: The young Moses, having broken Pharao's crown, feigns madness by eating burning coals / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 11: Fall of idols during the Flight into Egypt / 11c: The young Moses, having broken Pharao's crown, feigns madness by eating burning coals / Variant: Several episodes depicted
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / The young Moses, having broken Pharao's crown, feigns madness by eating burning coals / Type for the Flight into Egypt (SHS, few manuscripts only) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Further details
This manuscript has apparently two images for 11c and none for 11b. The significance of this image is not clear - Comestor only states that Pharao saw the young Moses, playfully put his crown on Moses's head, and then Moses threw it down, the text of the Speculum is even less detailed
Artist or creator
Date
1440 (circa) - 1450
Location
Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, germ. fol. 245
Book, text or document (source of image)
unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 23r.
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