Iconography
	RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
	Old Testament
	→ Josue (A.V. Joshua) → The Crossing of the Jordan (Jos. 3:1 - 5:12) → The priests carry the Ark into the Jordan (Jos. 3:14)
	→ 4 Kings (A.V. II Kings) → Miracles of Eliseus (4 Kings 4-6:7) → The healing of Naaman (4 Kings 5) → Naaman washes himself in the Jordan and is healed (4 Kings 5:14)
	Typology and Prophecy
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Manuscripts → Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Latin 9584, and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 43-1950 (Tuscany or North-Eastern Italy, c1370-1390) → Chapters 8c-16b (Cambridge, fols. 1-8)
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 12: Baptism of Christ → 12d: The Israelites carry the Ark of the Covenant across the dried Jordan → All images
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 12: Baptism of Christ → 12d: The Israelites carry the Ark of the Covenant across the dried Jordan → Variant: One or more persons accompany or follow the bearers of the Ark
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 12: Baptism of Christ → 12c: Naaman bathes seven times in the Jordan and is cleansed of leprosy → All images
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 12: Baptism of Christ → 12c: Naaman bathes seven times in the Jordan and is cleansed of leprosy → Variant: Naaman with one or two attendants who help washing him
	→ Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament → 4 Kings → 4 Kings 5:14: Naaman washes himself in the Jordan and is healed → Type for the Baptism of Christ (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis
	→ Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament → Josue → Jos. 3:15-17: The Israelites carry the Ark of the Covenant through the dried Jordan → Type for the Baptism of Christ (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis
	→ Antitypes for episodes from the Ministry of Christ → Baptism → with 4 Kings 5:14: Naaman washes himself in the Jordan and is healed (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis
	→ Antitypes for episodes from the Ministry of Christ → Baptism → with Jos. 3:15-17: The Israelites carry the Ark of the Covenant through the dried Jordan (SHS)

	Further details
	ARTIST/CREATOR
	Tuscan or Italian (North-Eastern)
	DATE
	circa 1370 - circa 1390
	LOCATION
	Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum → 43-1950, fol. 5r
	TEXT/BOOK/DOCUMENT (SOURCE OF PHOTO)
	Speculum humanae salvationis

	Notes on photograph
	BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
	Montague Rhodes James and Bernhard Berenson, Speculum Humanae Salvationis. Being a reproduction of an Italian manuscript of the fourteenth century, Oxford 1926

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	RELATIONS
	Fitzwilliam Museum

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