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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Copenhagen, Royal Danish Library, GKS 79 folio (Bruges, c1440)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 11: Fall of idols during the Flight into Egypt / 11c: The young Moses, having broken Pharao's crown, feigns madness by eating burning coals / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 11: Fall of idols during the Flight into Egypt / 11c: The young Moses, having broken Pharao's crown, feigns madness by eating burning coals / Original composition: On one side Pharao enthroned, then Moses, the executioner preparing to behead him, and a man holding a brazier with coals
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / The young Moses, having broken Pharao's crown, feigns madness by eating burning coals / Type for the Fall of Idols at the Flight into Egypt (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Fall of the idols in Egypt / with The young Moses, having broken Pharao's crown, feigns madness by eating burning coals (Comestor, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Exodus / Childhood of Moses / Moses tramples or breaks the crown of Pharaoh (Comestor, non-scriptural) / Moses feigns madness by eating burning coals and so is not punished

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Artist or creator

Bruges (Gold Scrolls Group)

Date

1440 (circa)

Location

Copenhagen, Kongelige Bibliotek, GKS 79 folio

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 35v.

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