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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 40c-45f (Cambridge, fols. 18-25)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 41: Hell / 41c: Gideon punishes the men of Succoth with thorns and briers / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 41: Hell / 41c: Gideon punishes the men of Succoth with thorns and briers / Variant: Men are beaten whilst hanging upside down, without others watching the scene from above
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 41: Hell / 41d: The drowning of Pharao and the Egyptians / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 41: Hell / 41d: The drowning of Pharao and the Egyptians / Original composition: Pharao and his men submerged by the sea
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Exodus / Exod. 14:15-28: The Passing through the Red Sea and the Death of the Egyptians / Type for Hell (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Judges / Jud. 8:16: Gideon punishes the men of Succoth with thorns and briers / Type for Hell (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for eschatological scenes / Hell / with Exod. 14:27-28: Drowning of the Egyptians in the Red Sea (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for eschatological scenes / Hell / with Jud. 8:16: Gideon punishes the men of Succoth with thorns and briers (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Exodus / The Crossing of the Red Sea / The Egyptians drown (Exod. 14:28)
Old Testament / Judges / Gideon (Jud. 6-8) / The campaign against the kings of the Midianites (Jud. 7:24-8) / As he had threatened, Gideon punishes the men of Succoth with thorns (Jud. 8:16) / The inhabitants of Succoth are beaten, the tower is not destroyed

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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: 19r.

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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