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RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

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 16: Last Supper / 16d: Abraham meets the priest Melchisedech who sacrifices bread and wine / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 16: Last Supper / 16d: Abraham meets the priest Melchisedech who sacrifices bread and wine / Variant: Abraham, sometimes with companions, kneeling before Melchisedech who holds two ciborium-like vessels
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Genesis / Gen. 14:14: Melchisedech offers bread and wine / Type for the Last Supper (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Last Supper / with Gen. 14:18: Melchisedech offers bread and wine (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Genesis / Abraham and Isaac / Abraham and Lot, Melchisedech / Melchisedech, holding bread and wine, encounters and blesses Abraham (Gen. 14:19)

SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY

Coats-of-Arms / Fictive / Biblical figures / Abraham

Further details

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: 42r.

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