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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / New Haven, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, MS 27 (English, c1400-1410)
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, man with brazier, and 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 Fall of Idols at the Flight into Egypt (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Fall of the idols in Egypt / with The young Moses, having broken Pharao's crown, feigns madness by eating burning coals (Comestor, SHS) / 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

English

Date

1400 (circa) - 1410

Location

New Haven, CT, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, 27

Book, text or document (source of image)

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

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