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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Lilienfeld, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 114 (Austria, c1380)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 29: Christ vanquishing the devil in Limbo through His Passion / 29b: Banaias kills the lion in a cave / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 29: Christ vanquishing the devil in Limbo through His Passion / 29b: Banaias kills the lion in a cave / Variant: Banaias stabs the lion, which is not lying on its back, with a lance
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 30: Mary vanquishing the devil through compassion with Christ / 30b: Judith kills Holofernes / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 30: Mary vanquishing the devil through compassion with Christ / 30b: Judith kills Holofernes / Original composition: Judith stands behind Holofernes's bed and lifts the sword to behead him
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 2 Kings / 2 Kings 23:20: Banaias kills a lion in a pit / 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 / Judith / Judith 13:8-11: Judith beheads Holofernes / Type for Mary vanquishing the devil (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 2 Kings 23:20: Banaias kills a lion in a pit (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ vanquishing the devil in limbo)
Typology and Prophecy / Hagiographic Scenes with biblical models / Virgin Mary / Mary vanquishing the devil / with Judith 13:8-11: Judith beheads Holofernes (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / 2 Kings (A.V. II Samuel) / The Three Valiant Men (2 Kings 23) / Banaias, one of the Three Valiant Men, had once killed a lion in a pit (2 Kings 23:20)
Old Testament / Judith / Judith beheads Holofernes and returns to Bethulia (Judith 13) / Judith beheads Holofernes (Judith 13:10)

Further details

By mistake, the draughtsman first depicted 30b, and then replaced it with 29b

Artist or creator

Austrian from Kleinmariazell Abbey

Date

1380 (circa)

Location

Lilienfeld, Stiftsbibliothek, 114

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 43r.

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