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Title anyone who is bitten by a snake is cured by looking at the brazen serpent; the serpent (or dragon) is usually depicted on a tau-shaped cross or on a pillar, when the people complain again about the food, God sends poisonous snakes; many die of snake-bites ~ book of Numbers
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Sizes 58x77
Material Woodcut
Colour Black
Oldest appearance in Biblia Sacra 1553
Iconclass 71E3243,71E3241
Iconclass description anyone who is bitten by a snake is cured by looking at the brazen serpent; the serpent (or dragon) is usually depicted on a tau-shaped cross or on a pillar, when the people complain again about the food, God sends poisonous snakes; many die of snake-bites ~ book of Numbers
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Amsterdam UB 975 A 6 (Numbers) 1 L2v
Show scan: Amsterdam UB 975 A 6 (Numbers) vol.1 p.L2v
Show edition: 1553.B.dut.AMBenJWenBG.a

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Scan: 's-Gravenhage KB 1707 A 4 vol.1 p.k3r
Show edition: 1550.B.fre.AMBenJW.a

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