Iconography
	RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
	Old Testament
	→ Daniel → Nabuchodonosor's second dream and madness (Dan. 4) → Nabuchodonosor dreams of the tree (Dan. 4:6-14) → Destruction of the Tree (Dan. 4:10-14) → With the watcher commanding to destroy the tree and a man preparing to cut it down, with the sleeping Nabuchodonosor
	Typology and Prophecy
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Manuscripts → London, British Library, Harley MS 4996 (SW-Germany or Alsace, second or third quarter 14th century, incomplete set)
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 24: Crucifixion → 24b: King Nabuchodonosor dreams of the tree that is cut down by angels → All images
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 24: Crucifixion → 24b: King Nabuchodonosor dreams of the tree that is cut down by angels → Variant: Tree in centre, king in bed that stretches across the image, angel and man with axe, but no longer divided into two registers
	→ Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament → Daniel → Dan. 4:7-14: Nabuchodonosor's dream of a large tree that is cut down, which foretells his temporary madness → Type for the Crucifixion (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis
	→ Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ → Crucifixion → with Dan. 4:7-14: Nabuchodonosor's dream of a large tree that is cut down, which foretells his temporary madness (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis

	Further details
	ARTIST/CREATOR
	Southern German or Alsatian
	DATE
	2nd quarter 14th century - 3rd quarter 14th century
	LOCATION
	London, British Library → Harley MS 4996, fol. 25r
	TEXT/BOOK/DOCUMENT (SOURCE OF PHOTO)
	Speculum humanae salvationis

	Notes on photograph
	DESCRIPTION
	Evelyn Silber gift
	BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
	Evelyn Silber, The early iconography of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis: The Italian connection in the Fourteeenth Century, PhD Cambridge 1982 (typoscr.), pl. 128

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