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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 34: Pentecost / 34d: After Eliseus's prayer, the oil-jar of the widow of Sarephta never empties / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 34: Pentecost / 34d: After Eliseus's prayer, the oil-jar of the widow of Sarephta never empties / Variant: Eliseus and the widow pour oil, but they and the jars are not arranged symmetrically
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 4 Kings / 4 Kings 4: 4-5: After Eliseus's prayer, the oil-jar of the widow never empties / Type for Pentecost (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Pentecost / with 3 Kings 17:23: After Elias's prayer the oil-jar of the widow of Sarephta never becomes empty (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / 4 Kings (A.V. II Kings) / Miracles of Eliseus (4 Kings 4-6:7) / Multiplication of oil (4 Kings 4:1-7) / The woman pours oil, which does not run out, into many vessels (4 Kings 4:4-5)

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Chapters 35a-35b 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: 63v.

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