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 → Manuscripts → Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Ms. germ. fol. 1343 (Rhenish, c1400, incomplete set)
	→ 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 → Ostrich with worm next to vessel, in which the chick is not visible
	→ 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, not surrounded symmetrically by lions, with Habacuc and 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
	ARTIST/CREATOR
	Rhineland
	DATE
	circa 1400
	LOCATION
	Berlin, Staatsbibliothek → germ. fol. 1343, fol. 45r
	TEXT/BOOK/DOCUMENT (SOURCE OF PHOTO)
	Speculum humanae salvationis

	Notes on photograph
	DESCRIPTION
	Evelyn Silber gift

	Contact
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