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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, MS I.II.11 (perhaps Catalan, second quarter 15th century)
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 (attributed)

Date

15th century (second quarter) localised and dated because of similarity with Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Douce 204

Location

Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, I.II.11

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 30v.

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