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 → Manuscripts → Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Latin 9584, and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 43-1950 (Tuscany or North-Eastern Italy, c1370-1390) → Chapters 1a-8b (Paris, fols. 4-6, 14-18)
	→ 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 → Variant: The angel, with a lifted sword, confronts Balaam, who lifts his scourge or club, above a star
	→ 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
	This is a fragment - more than half of the illuminated pages are missing (the cut-out miniatures of most of them are now in Cambridge), the remainder is misbound in many places.
	ARTIST/CREATOR
	Tuscan or Italian (North-Eastern)
	DATE
	circa 1370 - circa 1390
	LOCATION
	Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France → lat. 9584, fol. 14r
	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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