(photo on external web page)

	Iconography
	RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
	Old Testament
	→ Genesis → Joseph → Joseph thrown into the well (Gen. 37:23-24)
	Typology and Prophecy
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Manuscripts → London, British Library, Sloane MS 361 (Germany, 15th century)
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 27: Entombment of Christ → 27c: Joseph is thrown into the cistern → All images
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 27: Entombment of Christ → 27c: Joseph is thrown into the cistern → Original composition: Two men hold Joseph's outstretched arms and lower him into the cistern
	→ Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament → Genesis → Gen. 37:23-24: Joseph thrown into the cistern → Type for the Entombment of Christ (BP, SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis
	→ Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ → Entombment of Christ → with Gen. 37:23-24: Joseph thrown into the cistern (BP, SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis

	Further details
	ARTIST/CREATOR
	Lower Rhine (attributed)
	DATE
	1st half 15th century
	LOCATION
	London, British Library → Sloane MS 361, fol. 30r
	TEXT/BOOK/DOCUMENT (SOURCE OF PHOTO)
	Speculum humanae salvationis

	Acknowledgements
	Images on external web-page, used with kind permission of the British Library (© British Library Board)

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