Iconography
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 / Darmstadt, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Hs 2505 (Cologne or Westfalia, c1360)
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 / 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)
Further details
Artist or creator
Date
1360 (circa)
Location
Book, text or document (source of image)
unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 53r.
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