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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Saint-Omer, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 236 (Saint-Omer, late 15th century)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 26: Mary's sorrow over Christ's death / 26c: Adam and Eve mourn for the slain Abel / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 26: Mary's sorrow over Christ's death / 26c: Adam and Eve mourn for the slain Abel / Variant: Adam and Eve with the body of Abel lying without a shroud on the ground
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / Adam and Eve lament Abel's death / Type for the Descent from the Cross (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Deposition of Christ / with Adam and Eve lamenting Abel's death (non-biblical, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Genesis / Cain and Abel / Adam and Eve lament Abel's death (Comestor)

Further details

Most miniatures copied after Saint-Omer, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 183

Artist or creator

Saint-Omer

Date

15th century (late)

Location

Saint-Omer (Pas de Calais), Bibliothèque municipale, 236

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 52v.

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