Iconography
	LITERATURE
	Modern
	→ Comestor, Petrus → Historia Scholastica → Non-biblical Episodes → 3 Kings - Solomon imprisons an ostrich chick in a glass vessel - the ostrich liberates it by squirting the blood of a worm onto the glass
	RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
	Old Testament
	→ Daniel → Daniel in the lions' den (Dan. 6 and 14) → In the lions' den - without king → with Habacuc and angel
	Typology and Prophecy
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Printed editions → Lyon: Huss, 1478
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 28: Christ entering Limbo → 28d: The ostrich dissolves a glass vessel with the blood of a worm to liberate its chick inside → All images
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 28: Christ entering Limbo → 28d: The ostrich dissolves a glass vessel with the blood of a worm to liberate its chick inside → Variant: Ostrich presses tail of worm against glass or wraps it around, inside the chick is visible, Solomon not present
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 28: Christ entering Limbo → 28c: Habacuc brings food to Daniel in the lions' den → All images
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 28: Christ entering Limbo → 28c: Habacuc brings food to Daniel in the lions' den → Variant: Daniel in a cave, surrounded symmetrically by lions, with Habacuc and the angel (or only the angel) above
	→ Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament → Daniel → Dan. 14:36-38: Daniel fed by Habacuc in the lions' den → Type for the Harrowing of Hell (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ entering Limbo)
	→ Non-biblical narratives treated as Types → The ostrich liberates its chick imprisoned by Solomon in a glass vessel by squirting the blood of a worm onto it → Type for the Harrowing of Hell (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ entering Limbo)
	→ Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin → Harrowing of Hell → with the Ostrich liberating its chick imprisoned by Solomon in a glass vessel by squirting the blood of a worm onto it (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ entering Limbo)
	→ Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin → Harrowing of Hell → with Dan. 14:36-38: Daniel fed by Habacuc in the lions' den (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ entering Limbo)

	Further details
	woodcut. Image also used in the first edition printed in Lyon in 1478 (first illustrated book printed in France). Image also used in the editions: 1479, 1482, 1486 (presumably, no surviving copy), 1488.
	ARTIST/CREATOR
	Lyon
	DATE
	1478
	LOCATION
	n/a
	TEXT/BOOK/DOCUMENT (SOURCE OF PHOTO)
	Colophon: Cy finist le Mirouer de la redemption de lumain lignage (GW M43034), Lyon (Huss), 1483, fol. 107r

	Notes on photograph
	COLLECTION
	Le livre illustré à Lyon (1480-1600) - Equipex Biblissima

	Find out more
	RELATIONS
	complete digital copy of illustrated text (external website)
	USTC
	BML catalogue entry (1479 edition)
	complete digital copy (Gallica)

	Acknowledgements
	Record created with the generous support of Equipex Biblissima

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