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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 413 (Hermann Wynrich von Wesel, between 1400 and 1414)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 17: The soldiers who come to arrest Christ fall to the ground / 17d: David kills eight hundred enemies / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 17: The soldiers who come to arrest Christ fall to the ground / 17d: David kills eight hundred enemies / Variant: David, with sword over his head but no shield, attacks enemies on his right or left - or the enemies there already dead
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 2 Kings / 2 Kings 23:8: David, although like a tender little worm of the wood, killed eight-hundred enemies / Type for the soldiers who came to arrest Christ falling to the ground (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / The soldiers fall back / with 2 Kings 23:8: David, although like a tender little worm of the wood, killed eight-hundred enemies (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / 2 Kings (A.V. II Samuel) / The Three Valiant Men (2 Kings 23) / David, despite being tender like a woodworm, once killed eight hundred Egyptians (2 Kings 23:8, in some translations not David but Adino or Hachmonis, one of his heroes)

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Artist or creator

Wynrich, Hermann, von Wesel (documented 1378-1413)

Date

15th century (early)

Location

Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 413

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 21r.

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