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LITERATURE
Modern / Comestor, Petrus / Historia Scholastica / Non-biblical Episodes / Daniel - Nabuchodonosor's body cut into 300 parts and fed to 300 birds
RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
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 25: The dead Christ mocked and pierced with a lance / 25d: Evil-Merodach cuts the body of his father Nabuchodonosor in 300 parts and feeds them to 300 birds / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 25: The dead Christ mocked and pierced with a lance / 25d: Evil-Merodach cuts the body of his father Nabuchodonosor in 300 parts and feeds them to 300 birds / Variant: Nabuchodonosor's body on the ground, Evil-Merodach holding one arm, preparing to cut it off
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 26: Mary's sorrow over Christ's death / 26a: Descent from the Cross (Variants: Crucifixion and Lamentation of Christ) / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 26: Mary's sorrow over Christ's death / 26a: Descent from the Cross (Variants: Crucifixion and Lamentation of Christ) / Variant: Mary not touching Christ
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Genesis / Gen. 37:32-35: Joseph's brothers show his cloak to Jacob / Type for the Deposition of Christ (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Ruth / Ruth 1:5 (and 1:20): Noemi and her daughter-in-law lament over the death of her husband and her sons / Type for the Descent from the Cross (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / Adam and Eve lament Abel's death / Type for the Descent from the Cross (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / Evil-Merodach cuts the body of Evil-Merodach into 300 parts / Type for the Crucifixion (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the Mocking of Christ on the Cross)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Crucifixion / with Evilmerodach cutting the dead body of his father Nabuchodonosor into 300 parts (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the Mocking of Christ on the Cross)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Deposition of Christ / with Adam and Eve lamenting Abel's death (non-biblical, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Deposition of Christ / with Gen. 37:32-35: Joseph's brothers show his blood-stained cloak to his father Jacob (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
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Date
1415 (circa) - 1425
Location
Book, text or document (source of image)
unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 28r.
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