Iconography

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Toledo, Archivo Capitular, MS 10.8 (Bologna, 1320-1340, destroyed)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 3: Annunciation of the Conception of Mary / 3c: The Garden Enclosed and Fountain Sealed Up / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 3: Annunciation of the Conception of Mary / 3c: The Garden Enclosed and Fountain Sealed Up / Original composition: Garden with circular walls, inside a simple well, often with rope and bucket above, not always clearly sealed
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 3: Annunciation of the Conception of Mary / 3d: Balaam (Bileam) and the angel / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 3: Annunciation of the Conception of Mary / 3d: Balaam (Bileam) and the angel / Original composition: The angel, with a lifted sword, confronts Balaam, who lifts his scourge or club, no star visible
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Numbers / Num. 22:21-27: An angel blocking the way of Bileam's ass / Type for the Annuncation of the Conception of the Virgin Mary to Joachim (SHS)
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Cantica Canticorum / Cant. 4:12: The bride as enclosed garden and sealed fountain / Type for the Annunciation of the Conception of the Conception of the Virgin Mary to Joachim (SHS)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Annunciation of the Conception of the Virgin Mary to Joachim / with Num. 22:21-27: An angel blocking the way of Bileam's ass (SHS)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Annunciation of the Conception of the Virgin Mary to Joachim / with Cant. 4:12: The bride as enclosed garden and sealed fountain (SHS)
Old Testament / Numbers / Balaam (Bileam) and Balak (Num. 22-24) / Balaam's ass stopped by an angel (Num. 22:22-30)
Virgin Mary / Symbols / Symbols taken from the Bible / Cant. 4:12: Hortus conclusus soror mea, sponsa, hortus conclusus, fons signatus (My sister, my spouse, is a garden enclosed, a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up)

Further details

Artist or creator

Bolognese

Date

1320 - 1340

Location

Toledo, Archivo Capitular, 10.8

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 6r.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Evelyn Silber, The early iconography of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis: The Italian connection in the Fourteeenth Century, PhD Cambridge 1982 (typoscr.), pl. 117

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