Iconography

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 13: Temptation of Christ / 13b: Daniel discovers the fraud of Bel's priests and kills the sacred dragon / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 13: Temptation of Christ / 13b: Daniel discovers the fraud of Bel's priests and kills the sacred dragon / Original composition: Daniel pushing a club-like object into the dragons's mouth, next to him Bel standing on the altar and holding food and drink
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Daniel / Dan. 14:5-21: Daniel discovers the fraud of the priests of Bel (no specific episode) / Type for the Temptation of Christ (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the first temptation)
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Daniel / Dan. 14:26: Daniel kills the dragon / Type for the Temptation of Christ (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the first temptation)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Ministry of Christ / Temptation / with Dan. 14:5-21: Daniel discovers the fraud of the priests of Bel (no specific episode, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the first temptation)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Ministry of Christ / Temptation / with Dan. 14:26: Daniel kills the dragon (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for the first temptation)
Old Testament / Daniel / Daniel and the priests of Bel (Dan. 14:1-21) / The idol of Bel with sacrifices
Old Testament / Daniel / Daniel and the dragon (Dan. 14:22-27)

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: 16v.

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. 101

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