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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 81.15 Aug. fol. (Northern Germany, 1456)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 16: Last Supper / 16d: Abraham meets the priest Melchisedech who sacrifices bread and wine / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 16: Last Supper / 16d: Abraham meets the priest Melchisedech who sacrifices bread and wine / Variant: Abraham, sometimes with companions, kneeling before Melchisedech who holds bread and a flagon
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Genesis / Gen. 14:14: Melchisedech offers bread and wine / Type for the Last Supper (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Last Supper / with Gen. 14:18: Melchisedech offers bread and wine (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Genesis / Abraham and Isaac / Abraham and Lot, Melchisedech / Melchisedech, holding bread and wine, encounters and blesses Abraham (Gen. 14:19)

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Artist or creator

German (northern)

Date

1456

Location

Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 81.15. Aug fol.

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 30r.

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