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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
Type Illustration
Sizes 97x131
Material Woodcut
Colour Black
Oldest appearance in Biblia Sacra 1518
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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Utrecht UB 106 G 4 Rariora 1 k1v
Show scan: Utrecht UB 106 G 4 Rariora vol.1 p.k1v
Show edition: 1516.OTpart.dut.CdG.a

Brussels BR LP 262 C 1 m1r
Show scan: Brussels BR LP 262 C vol.1 p.m1r
Show edition: 1518.Bpart.dut.CdG.a

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Scan: 's-Gravenhage KB 227 A 15 vol.1 p.m1r
Show edition: 1518.Bpart.dut.CdG.b

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