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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 29: Christ vanquishing the devil in Limbo through His Passion / 29b: Banaias kills the lion in a cave / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 29: Christ vanquishing the devil in Limbo through His Passion / 29b: Banaias kills the lion in a cave / Variant: Banaias stabs the lion, which is not lying on its back, with a lance
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 2 Kings / 2 Kings 23:20: Banaias kills a lion in a pit / Type for the Harrowing of Hell (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ vanquishing the devil in limbo)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Harrowing of Hell / with 2 Kings 23:20: Banaias kills a lion in a pit (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ vanquishing the devil in limbo)
Old Testament / 2 Kings (A.V. II Samuel) / The Three Valiant Men (2 Kings 23) / Banaias, one of the Three Valiant Men, had once killed a lion in a pit (2 Kings 23:20)

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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: 55r.

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