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MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Divination and prophecy / Sibyls / Cycles / Oracula sibyllina (Blockbook)
Divination and prophecy / Sibyls / Augustus and the Tiburtine Sibyl / Augustus adoring Christ

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Sibyls and Prophets / Oracula Sibyllina (Blockbook)
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Isaias / Isa. 60:1: Surge, illuminare, Jerusalem, quia venit lumen tuum, et gloria Domini super te orta / Prophecy for Augustus adoring Christ
Typology and Prophecy / Passages from the New Testament treated as Types and Prophecies / John / John 8:12: Ego sum lux mundi / Prophecy for Augustus adoring Christ
Typology and Prophecy / Sibylline oracles paralleled with biblical scenes / Libyan Sibyl / with Augustus adoring Christ
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Vision of Emperor Augustus and the Sibyl / with Isa. 60:1: Venit lumen tuum
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Vision of Emperor Augustus and the Sibyl / with John 8:12: Ego sum lux mundi
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Vision of Emperor Augustus and the Sibyl / with the Libyan Sibyl
Saints / Evangelists / John / Single figure / With chalice / with eagle

Further details

Artist or creator

Swabian after
Netherlandish

Date

1470 - 1475

Location

St Gall, Stiftsbibliothek

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Oracula sibyllina (Blockbook). Unspecified: B2.
View this reference in the Warburg library catalogue.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Oracula Sibyllina (Weissagungen der zwölf Sibyllen) nach dem einzigen, in der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen aufbewahrten Exemplare, ed. P. Heitz, Strassburg 1903 (source of photograph)

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