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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 41: Hell / 41b: David punishes the inhabitants of Rabbath / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 41: Hell / 41b: David punishes the inhabitants of Rabbath / Variant: A man tied to a column or a frame and tortured with pincers or similar instruments
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 2 Kings / 2 Kings 12:31: David cruelly kills the inhabitants of Rabbath / Type for Hell (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for eschatological scenes / Hell / with 2 Kings 12:31: David cruelly kills the inhabitants of Rabbath (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / 2 Kings (A.V. II Samuel) / David and Bethsabee (Bathsheba) (2 Kings 11-12) / David conquers Rabbath and kills its inhabitants by sawing them asunder and driving chariots over them (2 Kings 12:31)

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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: 85v.

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