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Modern / Comestor, Petrus / Historia Scholastica / Non-biblical Episodes / Daniel - Nabuchodonosor's body cut into 300 parts and fed to 300 birds

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Prague, Národní Muzeum, III.B.10 (Bohemian, c1420)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 25: The dead Christ mocked and pierced with a lance / 25d: Evil-Merodach cuts the body of his father Nabuchodonosor in 300 parts and feeds them to 300 birds / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 25: The dead Christ mocked and pierced with a lance / 25d: Evil-Merodach cuts the body of his father Nabuchodonosor in 300 parts and feeds them to 300 birds / Original composition: Evil-Merodach standing behind a table with Nabuchodonosor's body, in the foreground two birds with his head
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / Evil-Merodach cuts the body of Evil-Merodach into 300 parts / Type for the Crucifixion (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the Mocking of Christ on the Cross)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Crucifixion / with Evilmerodach cutting the dead body of his father Nabuchodonosor into 300 parts (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the Mocking of Christ on the Cross)

Further details

Chapter 26 is apparently not illustrated in this manuscript

Artist or creator

Bohemian

Date

1420 (circa)

Location

Prague, Národní Muzeum, III.B.10

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 29v.

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