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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 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 / Building of the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1-4)
Acts of the Apostles / Pentecost / The descent of the Holy Spirit / Virgin present / Without tongues of flame descending

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: 37v.

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