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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 17: The soldiers who come to arrest Christ fall to the ground / 17b: Samson kills thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 17: The soldiers who come to arrest Christ fall to the ground / 17b: Samson kills thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass / Variant: Samson, with the jawbone not above his head, attacks enemies at his left or his right
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Judges / Jud. 15:15: Samson kills thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass / Type for the soldiers who came to arrest Christ falling to the ground (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / The soldiers fall back / with Jud. 15:15: Samson kills thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Judges / Samson (Jud. 13-16) / The Jawbone of an Ass (Jud. 15:9-19) / Samson kills the Philistines with the jawbone of an ass (Jud. 15:15-16) / Speculum humanae salvationis

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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: 19v.

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