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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1806 (Augsburg, first third 15th century)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 25: The dead Christ mocked and pierced with a lance / 25c: Absalom, already wounded by lances, is attacked with swords / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 25: The dead Christ mocked and pierced with a lance / 25c: Absalom, already wounded by lances, is attacked with swords / Variant: In the middle Absalom hanging from the tree, at the left and right soldiers attacking with with two or three spears
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 2 Kings / 2 Kings 18:14-15: Absalom is attacked first with three spears and then with swords / Type for the Crucifixion (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the mocking of Christ on the Cross)
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1401 (circa) - 1433
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Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1806
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unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 27r.
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