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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 31: Christ delivering the Fathers from Limbo / 31c: Abraham delivered from the fire / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 31: Christ delivering the Fathers from Limbo / 31c: Abraham delivered from the fire / Variant: God pulls Abraham from the fire (not symmetrical)
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / Abraham is thrown into the fire in Ur and rescued by God / Type for the Liberation of the Fathers from Limbo (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Harrowing of Hell / with Abraham delivered by God from the fire in Ur (Comestor, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ delivering the souls from limbo)
Old Testament / Genesis / Abraham and Isaac / Youth of Abraham / Abraham thrown into a fire in Ur and liberated by God (Comestor) / Abraham pulled out of the fire by God

Further details

Fol. 57 is partly cut out, the drawings are missing

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: 58r.

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