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 34: Pentecost / 34a: Pentecost / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 34: Pentecost / 34a: Pentecost / Original composition: God in clouds, beneath rays of fire going down towards Mary and the Apostles
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 34: Pentecost / 34b: Building of the Tower of Babel / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 34: Pentecost / 34b: Building of the Tower of Babel / Original composition: Tower of Babel with God at the top and two builders, often with banderoles, on each side
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Genesis / Gen. 11:1-9: Building of the Tower of Babel / Type for Pentecost (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Exodus / Exod. 19:16-19, 20:21 and 31:18: The giving of the Law on Sinai / Type for Pentecost (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 3 Kings / 3 Kings 17:23: After Elias's prayer the oil-jar of the widow of Sarephta never becomes empty / Type for Pentecost (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Pentecost / with Gen. 11:1-9: Building of the Tower of Babel (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Pentecost / with Exod. 19:16-19, 20:21 and 31:18: The giving of the Law on Sinai (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Pentecost / with 3 Kings 17:23: After Elias's prayer the oil-jar of the widow of Sarephta never becomes empty (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Genesis / The Tower of Babel / Confusion of Languages
Acts of the Apostles / Pentecost / The descent of the Holy Spirit / Virgin present / With tongues of flame descending

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: 36v.

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. 157

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