(photo on external web page)

	Iconography
	RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
	Old Testament
	→ 1 Machabees (A.V. Maccabees) → Eleazar kills an elephant from beneath and is crushed by it (1 Mach. 6:46)
	Typology and Prophecy
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Printed editions → Augsburg: Zainer, c1473
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 24: Crucifixion → 24d: Eleazar stabs the elephant into its belly and is crushed by it → All images
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 24: Crucifixion → 24d: Eleazar stabs the elephant into its belly and is crushed by it → Original composition: Eleazar under the elephant, stabbing it from beneath
	→ Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament → 1 Machabees → 1 Mach. 6:46: Eleazar kills an elephant from beneath and is crushed by it → Type for the Crucifixion (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis
	→ Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ → Crucifixion → with 1 Mach. 6:46: Eleazar kills an elephant from beneath and is crushed by it (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis

	Further details
	ARTIST/CREATOR
	Augsburg
	DATE
	circa 1473
	LOCATION
	n/a
	TEXT/BOOK/DOCUMENT (SOURCE OF PHOTO)
	Speculum humanae salvationis (GW M43054), Augsburg (Zainer), 1473 (circa), p. 258 (Pagination after Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 2 Inc.s.a. 1087)

	Find out more
	RELATIONS
	complete digital copy of illustrated text (external website)

	Acknowledgements
	Images on external web-page, used with kind permission of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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