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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Konsistorialbibliothek, WD 107 (Southern Germany, Mid-15th century)
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, Moses, man with brazier, and one or more accusers or bystanders
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 feigns madness by eating burning coals and so is not punished

Further details

Artist or creator

German (southern)

Date

15th century (middle) one fascicle of the composite manuscript is dated to 1452

Location

Rothenburg ob der Tauber (Lower Franconia), Konsistorialbibliothek (kept in the Stadtarchiv), WD 107

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 26r.

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