Iconography
	RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
	Old Testament
	→ Genesis → Abraham and Isaac → Youth of Abraham → Abraham thrown into a fire in Ur and liberated by God (Comestor) → Abraham pulled out of the fire by God
	Typology and Prophecy
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Manuscripts → Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 146 (Bologna, second quarter 14th century)
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 31: Christ delivering the Fathers from Limbo → 31c: Abraham delivered from the fire → All images
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 31: Christ delivering the Fathers from Limbo → 31c: Abraham delivered from the fire → Original composition: God pulls Abraham from the fire (symmetrical)
	→ Non-biblical narratives treated as Types → Abraham is thrown into the fire in Ur and rescued by God → Type for the Liberation of the Fathers from Limbo (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis
	→ Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin → Harrowing of Hell → with Abraham delivered by God from the fire in Ur (Comestor, SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ delivering the souls from limbo)

	Further details
	ARTIST/CREATOR
	Bolognese
	DATE
	2nd quarter 14th century
	LOCATION
	Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek → Clm 146, fol. 34r
	TEXT/BOOK/DOCUMENT (SOURCE OF PHOTO)
	Speculum humanae salvationis

	Notes on photograph
	BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
	J. Lutz and P. Perdrizet, Speculum Humanae Salvationis. Kritische Ausgabe, vol. 2, Mühlhausen and Leipzig, 1909, pl. 62

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