(photo on external web page)

	Iconography
	RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
	Old Testament
	→ Numbers → Balaam (Bileam) and Balak (Num. 22-24) → Balaam's ass stopped by an angel (Num. 22:22-30)
	Typology and Prophecy
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Printed editions → Augsburg: Sorg, 1476
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 3: Annunciation of the Conception of Mary → 3d: Balaam (Bileam) and the angel → All images
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 3: Annunciation of the Conception of Mary → 3d: Balaam (Bileam) and the angel → Original composition: The angel, with a lifted sword, confronts Balaam, who lifts his scourge or club, no star visible
	→ Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament → Numbers → Num. 22:21-27: An angel blocking the way of Bileam's ass → Type for Annunciation of the Conception of the Virgin Mary to Anne (SHS, few manuscripts only, the text refers to the prophecy of the star rather than this episode) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis
	→ Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ → Annunciation of the Conception of the Virgin Mary to Anne → with Num. 22:21-27: An angel blocking the way of Bileam's ass (SHS, few manuscripts only) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis

	Further details
	ARTIST/CREATOR
	Augsburg
	DATE
	1476
	LOCATION
	n/a
	TEXT/BOOK/DOCUMENT (SOURCE OF PHOTO)
	Hie vahet an ein spiegel menschlicher behaltnuß (GW M43012), Augsburg (Sorg), 1476 (Aug 9), fol. 6v (Foliation after Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 2 Inc.c.a. 531)

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	RELATIONS
	complete digital copy of illustrated text (external website)

	Acknowledgements
	Images on external web-page, used with kind permission of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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