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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 31: Christ delivering the Fathers from Limbo / 31a: Christ delivers the Fathers from Limbo / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 31: Christ delivering the Fathers from Limbo / 31a: Christ delivers the Fathers from Limbo / Variant: Christ leads a group of persons out of a cave
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 31: Christ delivering the Fathers from Limbo / 31b: Delivery of the Israelites from Egypt / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 31: Christ delivering the Fathers from Limbo / 31b: Delivery of the Israelites from Egypt / Variant: Moses leads the Israelites out of a gate, without an angel
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Genesis / Gen. 19:23-26: Lot escapes from Sodom, his wife is turned into a pillar of salt / Type for the Delivery of the Fathers from Limbo (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Exodus / Exod. 12:51: The Israelites depart from Egypt / Type for Christ delivering the Fathers from Limbo (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
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)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Harrowing of Hell / with Gen. 19:23-26: Lot escapes from Sodom, his wife is turned into a pillar of salt (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ delivering the souls from limbo)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Harrowing of Hell / with Exod. 12:51: The Israelites depart from Egypt (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Exodus / The Passover / The Israelites depart from Egypt (Exod. 12:51)
Life of Christ / After the Passion / Harrowing of Hell / Christ leading the Fathers out of Limbo - not trampling a devil or the broken doors of Hell

Further details

Artist or creator

Tuscan or
Italian (North-Eastern)

Date

1370 (circa) - 1390 (circa)

Location

Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 43-1950

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 15v.

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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