Iconography
	RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
	Old Testament
	→ Genesis → Abraham and Isaac → Abraham and Lot, Melchisedech → Melchisedech, holding bread and wine, encounters and blesses Abraham (Gen. 14:19)
	→ Exodus → The Passover → The Passover Meal and its preparation (Exod. 12:8-11)
	Typology and Prophecy
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Manuscripts → Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS 281-283 (2140) (Rhineland, c1390)
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 16: Last Supper → 16d: Abraham meets the priest Melchisedech who sacrifices bread and wine → All images
	→ 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
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 16: Last Supper → 16c: The Israelites eat the Passover lamb → All images
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 16: Last Supper → 16c: The Israelites eat the Passover lamb → Original composition: Lamb on a spit in the centre, above and below four persons, holding the lamb or eating
	→ 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
	→ Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament → Exodus → Exod. 12:8-11: The Passover meal → Type for the Last Supper (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis
	→ Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ → Last Supper → with Gen. 14:18: Melchisedech offers bread and wine (BP, SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis
	→ Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ → Last Supper → with Exod. 12:8-11: The Passover meal (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis
	SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY
	Coats-of-Arms
	→ Fictive → Biblical figures → Abraham

	Further details
	ARTIST/CREATOR
	Rhineland from Steinhaus monastery near Wuppertal
	DATE
	circa 1390
	LOCATION
	Brussels, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique → 281-283 (cat. no. 2140), fol. 20r
	TEXT/BOOK/DOCUMENT (SOURCE OF PHOTO)
	Speculum humanae salvationis

	Notes on photograph
	DESCRIPTION
	Evelyn Silber gift

	Contact
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