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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 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 Descent from the Cross (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Deposition of Christ / with Adam and Eve lamenting Abel's death (non-biblical, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Genesis / Cain and Abel / Adam and Eve lament Abel's death (Comestor)

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Chapters 26a-26b are apparently missing in this manuscript

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: 49r.

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