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LITERATURE

Modern / Comestor, Petrus / Historia Scholastica / Non-biblical Episodes / 4 Kings - Manasses has Isaias sawn in two

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Douce 204 (Catalonia or Rousillon, c1430-1450)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 23: Christ nailed to the Cross / 23c: Isaias is sawn into two parts / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 23: Christ nailed to the Cross / 23c: Isaias is sawn into two parts / Original composition: Isaias is suspended upside-down from beams or similar contraptions and sawn asunder by two men, starting at his groin
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / Isaias is sawn in two by command of King Manasses / Type for Christ nailed to the Cross (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Christ nailed to the Cross / with Isaias sawn into pieces (non-biblical, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Isaias (A.V. Isaiah) / Isaias sawn asunder (Comestor)

Further details

Artist or creator

Catalonia or
Roussillon

Date

1430 (circa) - 1450

Location

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 204

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 23v.

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