Iconography

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Munich, Art Market (1967) and formerly Straßburg, Forrer Collection (Fragments, Upper Rhine, c1330-1340) / Munich fragment (ch. 37-38)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 38: Mary protecting the faithful under her cloak / 38b: Moses besieged the city of Saba and then fell in love and married Tarbis, daughter of its king / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 38: Mary protecting the faithful under her cloak / 38b: Moses besieged the city of Saba and then fell in love and married Tarbis, daughter of its king / Original composition: Moses rides past the wall of Saba, on which the king and his daughter Tarbis are standing
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / Moses stops the siege of Saba after falling in love with Tarbis, daughter of its king / Model for Mary protecting the Faithful (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Hagiographic Scenes with biblical models / Virgin Mary / Mary as Protector and Intercessor / with Moses stopping the siege of Saba after falling in love with Tarbis, daughter of its king (Flavius and Comestor, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Exodus / Childhood of Moses / Moses, as Egyptian general, besieges Saba but then makes peace with it and marries Tarbis, the daughter of its king (Comestor, non-scriptural) / Moses approaches Saba and is seen by Tarbis and her father from the walls

Further details

Artist or creator

Upper Rhine

Date

1330 (circa) - 1340

Location

Munich, Art market (offered in 1967)

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: v.

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. 150

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