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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Hs. 42541 (Eastern Central Germany, first half 15th century, fragment)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 31: Christ delivering the Fathers from Limbo / 31c: Abraham delivered from the fire / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 31: Christ delivering the Fathers from Limbo / 31c: Abraham delivered from the fire / Variant: God appears to Abraham but does not pull him out of the fire
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / Abraham is thrown into the fire in Ur and rescued by God / Type for the Liberation of the Fathers from Limbo (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Harrowing of Hell / with Abraham delivered by God from the fire in Ur (Comestor, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ delivering the souls from limbo)
Old Testament / Genesis / Abraham and Isaac / Youth of Abraham / Abraham thrown into a fire in Ur and liberated by God (Comestor) / Abraham praying in the fire

Further details

Fragment, Chapter 31a and 31b are lost

Artist or creator

German (East central)

Date

15th century (first half)

Location

Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Hs. 42541

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 1r.

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