Iconography
MAGIC AND SCIENCE
Divination and prophecy / Sibyls / Augustus and the Tiburtine Sibyl / The Sibyl points to the Virgin and Child
RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS 281-283 (2140) (Rhineland, c1390)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 8: Nativity of Christ / 8d: Augustus and the Sibyl have vision of Christ's Nativity / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 8: Nativity of Christ / 8d: Augustus and the Sibyl have vision of Christ's Nativity / Original composition: Sibyl seated next to Augustus, above them a sun and an image of the Virgin and Child, with texts or banderoles
Further details
Artist or creator
Rhineland from Steinhaus monastery near Wuppertal
Date
1390 (circa)
Location
Brussels, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, 281-283 (cat. no. 2140)
Book, text or document (source of image)
unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 12r.
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