(photo on external web page)

	Iconography
	RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
	Life of Christ
	→ After the Passion → Harrowing of Hell → Hell as a four-tiered structure (Hell proper, Limbus puerorum, Purgatory, Limbus patrum), which Christ in the top register
	Typology and Prophecy
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Printed editions → Paris: perhaps Treperel, c1493 (woodcuts also used by Vérard)
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 28: Christ entering Limbo → 28a: The structure of Hell, Purgatory and Limbo, with Christ entering Limbo → All images
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 28: Christ entering Limbo → 28a: The structure of Hell, Purgatory and Limbo, with Christ entering Limbo → Original composition: Hell, above it Limbus Puerorum, Purgatory, Limbus Patrum with Christ in the centre
	→ 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)
	→ Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament → Daniel → Dan. 3:49-50: An angel protects the Hebrews in the fiery furnace → 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)
	→ Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin → Harrowing of Hell → with Dan. 3:49-50: An angel protects the Hebrews in the fiery furnace (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ entering Limbo)

	Further details
	The woodblock series for the Speculum omits a number of common scenes that were replaced with re-used woodcuts, the Speculum blocks were also used in editions by Vérard. Many woodblocks appear in the wrong place.
	ARTIST/CREATOR
	Paris
	DATE
	circa 1493
	LOCATION
	n/a
	TEXT/BOOK/DOCUMENT (SOURCE OF PHOTO)
	Cest le mirouer de la redempcion humaine (GW M4304210), Paris (perhaps Jan Tréperel), 1493 (circa), fol. o8r

	Acknowledgements
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