Avignon - 14th century (first half) | The Warburg Institute Iconographic Database

Iconography

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Rome, Biblioteca Corsiniana, MS 55.K.2 (Avignon, first half 14th century, Rossi 17)

Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Christ nailed to the Cross / As model for St Francis assuming the habit and leaving girdle, shoes and bag behind (perhaps alluding to the Stripping of Christ)

Typology and Prophecy / Hagiographic Scenes with biblical models / Francis / St Francis assuming the habit and leaving girdle, shoes and bag behind / with Christ nailed to the Cross (perhaps alluding to the Stripping of Christ before the Crucifixion)

Saints / Saints A - Z / Francis of Assisi (OFM) / Cycles / Rome, Biblioteca Corsiniana, MS 55.K.2 (Avignon, first half 14th century, Life of St Francis combined with a Speculum humanae salvationis, incomplete set)

Saints / Saints A - Z / Francis of Assisi (OFM) / Life / St Francis assumes the habit leaving, according to Christ's command to the Apostles, girdle, shoes and bag behind (Legenda maior, III, 1)

Further details

Artist or creator

Avignon

Date

14th century (first half)

Location

Rome, Biblioteca Corsiniana

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 33v.

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. 73

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