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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 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)

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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: 56r.

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