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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Hs. 22401 (probably Swabia, early 15th century, only partially illustrated))
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 / Variant: Pharao handing the (undamaged) crown to Moses
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 is handed the crown

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Artist or creator

Swabian (attributed)

Date

15th century (early)

Location

Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Hs. 22401

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 14r.

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