Iconography

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Prague, Knihovna pražké metropolitní kapituly, A13 (Bohemian, perhaps partially Italian, second half 14th century, incomplete set)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 30: Mary vanquishing the devil through compassion with Christ / 30b: Judith kills Holofernes / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 30: Mary vanquishing the devil through compassion with Christ / 30b: Judith kills Holofernes / Original composition: Judith stands behind Holofernes's bed and lifts the sword to behead him
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Judith / Judith 13:8-11: Judith beheads Holofernes / Type for Mary vanquishing the devil (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Hagiographic Scenes with biblical models / Virgin Mary / Mary vanquishing the devil / with Judith 13:8-11: Judith beheads Holofernes (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Judith / Judith beheads Holofernes and returns to Bethulia (Judith 13) / Judith beheads Holofernes (Judith 13:10)

Further details

Artist or creator

Bohemian

Date

14th century (second half)

Location

Prague, Knihovna pražké metropolitní kapituly, A13

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 30v.

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. 123

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