(photo on external web page)

	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
	Typology and Prophecy
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Manuscripts → Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1806 (Augsburg, first third 15th century)
	→ 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
	→ 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)

	Further details
	ARTIST/CREATOR
	Augsburg
	DATE
	circa 1401 - 1433
	LOCATION
	Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana → Pal. lat. 1806, fol. 30r
	TEXT/BOOK/DOCUMENT (SOURCE OF PHOTO)
	Speculum humanae salvationis

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	RELATIONS
	Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg (images without watermarks)

	Acknowledgements
	Images on external web-page, used with kind permission of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

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