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Modern / Comestor, Petrus / Historia Scholastica / Non-biblical Episodes / 4 Kings - Manasses kills the prophets

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Douce f 4 (probably Flemish, c1460-1470, fragment)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 14: Mary Magdalene anointing Christ's feet / 14b: Repentance of King Manasses in prison / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 14: Mary Magdalene anointing Christ's feet / 14b: Repentance of King Manasses in prison / Variant: Crimes of Manasses
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / King Manasses kills the prophets / mus_ixthes
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Ministry of Christ / Mary Magdalene anoints Christ's feet / with King Manasses killing the prophets (Comestor, SHS, few manuscripts only - the comparison is actually with Manasses's repentance, not his crimes)
Old Testament / 4 Kings (A.V. II Kings) / King Manasses (4 Kings 20:21-21:18) / Manasses killing the prophets (Comestor)

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Artist or creator

Flemish (attributed)

Date

1460 (circa) - 1470

Location

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce f. 4

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis.

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