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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 24b-32b (Cambridge, fols. 9-16)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 27: Entombment of Christ / 27a: Christ laid into the sepulchre / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 27: Entombment of Christ / 27a: Christ laid into the sepulchre / Original composition: Mary embracing Christ, who is lying or being laid into a sarcophagus
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 27: Entombment of Christ / 27b: David mourns at Abner's funeral / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 27: Entombment of Christ / 27b: David mourns at Abner's funeral / Variant: David walks next to Abner's hearse
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Genesis / Gen. 37:23-24: Joseph thrown into the cistern / Type for the Entombment of Christ (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 2 Kings / 2 Kings 3:31-38: David mourns for Abner / Type for the Entombment of Christ (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Jonas / Jon. 1:15-2:1: Jonas cast over board and swallowed by the sea-monster / Type for the Entombment of Christ (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Entombment of Christ / with Gen. 37:23-24: Joseph thrown into the cistern (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Entombment of Christ / with 2 Kings 3:31-38: David mourns for Abner (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Entombment of Christ / with Jon. 1:15-2:1: Jonas cast over board and swallowed by the sea-monster (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / 2 Kings (A.V. II Samuel) / Coronation and exaltation of David, Joab and Abner (2 Kings 2-5) / David mourns for Abner (2 Kings 3:31-38)
Life of Christ / Passion / Entombment / Christ's body lowered into the sarcophagus

Further details

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: 11v.

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