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RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Chicago, Newberry Library, MS 40 (Bruges, c1460)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 38: Mary protecting the faithful under her cloak / 38a: Mary protecting the faithful under her cloak / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 38: Mary protecting the faithful under her cloak / 38a: Mary protecting the faithful under her cloak / Original composition: Mary without child, protecting the faithful under her cloak
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 38: Mary protecting the faithful under her cloak / 38b: Moses besieged the city of Saba and then fell in love and married Tarbis, daughter of its king / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 38: Mary protecting the faithful under her cloak / 38b: Moses besieged the city of Saba and then fell in love and married Tarbis, daughter of its king / Variant: Moses and Tarbis meet
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Judges / Jud. 9:53-54: Abimelech attacks the tower of Sichem, is wounded by a stone thrown down by a woman, and asks his armourbearer to kill him / Model for Mary protecting the Faithful (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 1 Kings / 1 Kings 19:12: With Michol's help David escapes through the window / Model for Mary protecting the Faithful (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / Moses stops the siege of Saba after falling in love with Tarbis, daughter of its king / Model for Mary protecting the Faithful (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Hagiographic Scenes with biblical models / Virgin Mary / Mary as Protector and Intercessor / with Moses stopping the siege of Saba after falling in love with Tarbis, daughter of its king (Flavius and Comestor, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Hagiographic Scenes with biblical models / Virgin Mary / Mary as Protector and Intercessor / with Jud. 9:53-54: Abimelech attacks the tower of Sichem, is wounded by a stone thrown down by a woman, and asks his armourbearer to kill him (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Hagiographic Scenes with biblical models / Virgin Mary / Mary as Protector and Intercessor / with 1 Kings 19:12: With Michol's help David escapes through the window (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Exodus / Childhood of Moses / Moses, as Egyptian general, besieges Saba but then makes peace with it and marries Tarbis, the daughter of its king (Comestor, non-scriptural) / Moses and Tarbis meet
Virgin Mary / Iconography of the Virgin Mary / Mother of Mercy / Without child

Further details

Artist or creator

Bruges (attributed)

Date

1460 (circa)

Location

Chicago, Newberry Library, 40

Associated persons

James Marrow (Photographer (analogue))

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 38v.

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