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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Latin 9584, and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 43-1950 (Tuscany or North-Eastern Italy, c1370-1390) / Chapters 24b-32b (Cambridge, fols. 9-16)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 29: Christ vanquishing the devil in Limbo through His Passion / 29c: Samson kills the lion / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 29: Christ vanquishing the devil in Limbo through His Passion / 29c: Samson kills the lion / Original composition: Samson astride on the lion, grasping with each hand one jaw
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 29: Christ vanquishing the devil in Limbo through His Passion / 29d: Ehud killing Eglon / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 29: Christ vanquishing the devil in Limbo through His Passion / 29d: Ehud killing Eglon / Variant: Ehud stabs the enthroned Eglon without gripping his arm
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Judges / Jud. 3:17-22: Ehud (Aod) kills Eglon / Type for the Harrowing of Hell (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ vanquishing the devil in limbo)
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Judges / Jud. 14:5-6: Samson kills the lion / Type for the Harrowing of Hell (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ defeating the devil in limbo)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Harrowing of Hell / with Jud. 3:17-22: Ehud (Aod) kills Eglon (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ vanquishing the devil in limbo)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Harrowing of Hell / with Jud. 14:5-6: Samson kills the lion (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ vanquishing the devil in limbo)
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Artist or creator
Date
1370 (circa) - 1390 (circa)
Location
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 43-1950
Book, text or document (source of image)
unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 14r.
Notes on photograph
Bibliographic Citation
Montague Rhodes James and Bernhard Berenson, Speculum Humanae Salvationis. Being a reproduction of an Italian manuscript of the fourteenth century, Oxford 1926
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