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 11: Fall of idols during the Flight into Egypt / 11b: According to a prophecy of Jeremias the Egyptians would one day venerate the image of a virgin with her child / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 11: Fall of idols during the Flight into Egypt / 11b: According to a prophecy of Jeremias the Egyptians would one day venerate the image of a virgin with her child / Original composition: Virgin and Child standing, on each side a candlestick with three candles
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / Jeremias prophesies that the Egyptians will worship an image of a Virgin and a Child / Type for the Fall of Idols at the Flight into Egypt (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
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Artist or creator
Date
15th century
Location
Book, text or document (source of image)
unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 11v.
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. 136
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