Iconography

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / London, British Library, Harley MS 4996 (SW-Germany or Alsace, second or third quarter 14th century, incomplete set)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 24: Crucifixion / 24b: King Nabuchodonosor dreams of the tree that is cut down by angels / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 24: Crucifixion / 24b: King Nabuchodonosor dreams of the tree that is cut down by angels / Variant: Tree in centre, king in bed that stretches across the image, angel and man with axe, but no longer divided into two registers
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Daniel / Dan. 4:7-14: Nabuchodonosor's dream of a large tree that is cut down, which foretells his temporary madness / Type for the Crucifixion (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Crucifixion / with Dan. 4:7-14: Nabuchodonosor's dream of a large tree that is cut down, which foretells his temporary madness (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Daniel / Nabuchodonosor's second dream and madness (Dan. 4) / Nabuchodonosor dreams of the tree (Dan. 4:6-14) / Destruction of the Tree (Dan. 4:10-14) / With the watcher commanding to destroy the tree and a man preparing to cut it down, with the sleeping Nabuchodonosor

Further details

Artist or creator

German (southwest) or
Alsatian

Date

14th century (second quarter) - 14th century (third quarter)

Location

London, British Library, Harley MS 4996

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 25r.

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. 128

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