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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 26: Mary's sorrow over Christ's death / 26c: Adam and Eve mourn for the slain Abel / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 26: Mary's sorrow over Christ's death / 26c: Adam and Eve mourn for the slain Abel / Original composition: Adam and Eve hold the body of Abel between them
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / Adam and Eve lament Abel's death / Type for the Lamentation of Christ (SHS, few manuscripts only) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Lamentation of Christ / with Adam and Eve lamenting Abel's death (non-biblical; SHS, few manuscripts only) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Genesis / Cain and Abel / Adam and Eve lament Abel's death (Comestor)

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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: 26v.

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