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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Nová Riše, Kanonie sv. Petra a Pavla, Ms 80 (Master of the Brno Speculum, c1415-1425)
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 his head but no shield, attacks enemies on his right or left - or the enemies there already dead
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 / 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
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / The soldiers fall back / with Jud. 3:31: Samgar kills six-hundred Philistines with a ploughshare (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 / 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)

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Artist or creator

Master of the Brno Speculum (active Netherlands, c1410-1425)

Date

1415 (circa) - 1425

Location

Nová Riše, Kanonie sv. Petra a Pavla, 80

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 18v.

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