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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Glasgow, University Library, Hunter 60 (Bruges, 1454-1455)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 17: The soldiers who come to arrest Christ fall to the ground / 17a: The soldiers who come to arrest Christ fall to the ground / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 17: The soldiers who come to arrest Christ fall to the ground / 17b: Samson kills thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 17: The soldiers who come to arrest Christ fall to the ground / 17b: Samson kills thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass / Original composition: Samson stands in the centre, the jawbone above his head, with the enemies at his feet
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 17: The soldiers who come to arrest Christ fall to the ground / 17c: Samgar kills six hundred enemies with a ploughshare / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 17: The soldiers who come to arrest Christ fall to the ground / 17c: Samgar kills six hundred enemies with a ploughshare / Variant: Samgar armed with a sword
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 17: The soldiers who come to arrest Christ fall to the ground / 17d: David kills eight hundred enemies / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 17: The soldiers who come to arrest Christ fall to the ground / 17d: David kills eight hundred enemies / Variant: David with sword over head but without shield, enemies lying at his feet
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Judges / Jud. 3:31: Samgar kills six-hundred Philistines with a ploughshare / Type for the soldiers who came to arrest Christ falling to the ground (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Judges / Jud. 15:15: Samson kills thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass / Type for the soldiers who came to arrest Christ falling to the ground (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 2 Kings / 2 Kings 23:8: David, although like a tender little worm of the wood, killed eight-hundred enemies / Type for the soldiers who came to arrest Christ falling to the ground (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Judges / Othoniel, Ehud (Aod) and Samgar (Jud. 3) / Samgar kills six-hundred Philistines with a ploughshare (Jud. 3:31)
Old Testament / Judges / Samson (Jud. 13-16) / The Jawbone of an Ass (Jud. 15:9-19) / Samson kills the Philistines with the jawbone of an ass (Jud. 15:15-16) / Speculum humanae salvationis
Old Testament / 2 Kings (A.V. II Samuel) / The Three Valiant Men (2 Kings 23) / David, despite being tender like a woodworm, once killed eight hundred Egyptians (2 Kings 23:8, in some translations not David but Adino or Hachmonis, one of his heroes)
Life of Christ / Passion / Betrayal and arrest of Christ / The soldiers fall back

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Artist or creator

Bruges

Date

1454 - 1455

Location

Glasgow, University Library, Hunter 60 (T.2.18)

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 25v.

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