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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 / Prague, Národní Muzeum, 1. A. c. 75, 1-5 (Bohemia, c1420-1430, fragments)
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)

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Artist or creator

Bohemian

Date

1420 (circa) - 1430

Location

Prague, Národní Muzeum, 1. A. c. 75, 1-5

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis.

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