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LITERATURE

Modern / Comestor, Petrus / Historia Scholastica / Non-biblical Episodes / 3 Kings - Solomon imprisons an ostrich chick in a glass vessel - the ostrich liberates it by squirting the blood of a worm onto the glass

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Hs. 5970 (Bredt 78, Kapsel 1595 - loose fragments, incomplete set)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 28: Christ entering Limbo / 28c: Habacuc brings food to Daniel in the lions' den / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 28: Christ entering Limbo / 28c: Habacuc brings food to Daniel in the lions' den / Variant: Daniel in a cave, surrounded symmetrically by lions, with Habacuc and the angel (or only the angel) above
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 28: Christ entering Limbo / 28d: The ostrich dissolves a glass vessel with the blood of a worm to liberate its chick inside / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 28: Christ entering Limbo / 28d: The ostrich dissolves a glass vessel with the blood of a worm to liberate its chick inside / Original composition: Ostrich squirting the blood of a snall dragon onto the glass vessel, inside which the chick is visible
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Daniel / Dan. 14:36-38: Daniel fed by Habacuc in the lions' den / Type for the Harrowing of Hell (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ entering Limbo)
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / The ostrich liberates its chick imprisoned by Solomon in a glass vessel by squirting the blood of a worm onto it / Type for the Harrowing of Hell (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ entering Limbo)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Harrowing of Hell / with the Ostrich liberating its chick imprisoned by Solomon in a glass vessel by squirting the blood of a worm onto it (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ entering Limbo)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Harrowing of Hell / with Dan. 14:36-38: Daniel fed by Habacuc in the lions' den (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ entering Limbo)
Old Testament / Daniel / Daniel in the lions' den (Dan. 6 and 14) / In the lions' den - without king / with Habacuc and angel

Further details

Artist or creator

Franconian or
Bohemian

Date

1400 (circa)

Location

Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Hs. 5970 (Kapsel-Nr. 1595, Bredt 78)

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis.

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