Iconography

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys Library, MS 2359 (English, 15th century, incomplete set)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 37: Mary interceding for the Sinners / 37b: Abigail asks David to be merciful to her husband Nabal / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 37: Mary interceding for the Sinners / 37b: Abigail asks David to be merciful to her husband Nabal / Original composition: Abigail kneels before David who approaches on foot with his soldiers
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 1 Kings / 1 Kings 25:23-24: Abigail asks David to be merciful to her husband Nabal / Model for Mary interceding for the faithful (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Hagiographic Scenes with biblical models / Virgin Mary / Mary as Protector and Intercessor / with 1 Kings 25:23-24: Abigail asks David to be merciful to her husband Nabal (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / 1 Kings (A.V. I Samuel) / The war between Saul and David (1 Kings 19-31) / David, Nabal and Abigail, Phalti (1 Kings 25:2-44) / Abigail intercedes with David for Nabal (1 Kings 25:23-31)

Further details

Artist or creator

English
anonymous

Date

15th century

Location

Cambridge, Magdalene College (Pepys Library), 2359

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 37v.

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. 132

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