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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Amberg, Provinzialbibliothek, 2 Ms. 46 (Swabia, c1415-1440)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 11: Fall of idols during the Flight into Egypt / 11c: The young Moses, having broken Pharao's crown, feigns madness by eating burning coals / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 11: Fall of idols during the Flight into Egypt / 11c: The young Moses, having broken Pharao's crown, feigns madness by eating burning coals / Variant: Pharao, Moses, executioner, one or more accusers or bystanders
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / The young Moses, having broken Pharao's crown, feigns madness by eating burning coals / Type for the Flight into Egypt (SHS, few manuscripts only) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Flight into Egypt / with the young Moses, having broken Pharao's crown, feigns madness by eating burning coals (Comestor, SHS, few manuscripts only) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Exodus / Childhood of Moses / Moses tramples or breaks the crown of Pharaoh (Comestor, non-scriptural) / Moses feigns madness by eating burning coals and so is not punished

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Artist or creator

Swabian

Date

1415 (circa) - 1440

Location

Amberg, Provinzialbibliothek, 2 Ms. 46

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 28r.

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