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LITERATURE

Modern / Comestor, Petrus / Historia Scholastica / Non-biblical Episodes / 2 Machabees - The tower Baris in Jerusalem, built by high priest Alexander Jannaeus, could be defended by two men against all enemies

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Divination and prophecy / Sibyls / Augustus and the Tiburtine Sibyl / Augustus alone
Geography / Topography / Countries A-Z / Palestine / Israel / Jerusalem / The Tower Baris

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Douce f 4 (probably Flemish, c1460-1470, fragment)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 6: The Betrothal of Mary to Joseph / 6c: The Tower Baris that could be defended by two men against all enemies / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 6: The Betrothal of Mary to Joseph / 6c: The Tower Baris that could be defended by two men against all enemies / Variant: A ruler, a tower and the Virgin Mary (perhaps a misunderstood scene)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 8: Nativity of Christ / 8d: Augustus and the Sibyl have vision of Christ's Nativity / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 8: Nativity of Christ / 8d: Augustus and the Sibyl have vision of Christ's Nativity / Variant: Augustus alone with the vision of the Virgin and Child
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / The tower Baris in Jerusalem could be defended by two men against all enemies / Type for the Betrothal of the Virgin Mary (SHS)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Betrothal of the Virgin Mary to Joseph / with the tower Baris in Jerusalem that could be defended by two men against all enemies (SHS)

Further details

This image should be an illustration of chapter 6c but it looks unlike other images of the tower of Baris. Possible, it is a illustration for chapter 8d (Augustus and the Sibyl) drawn on the wrong page

Artist or creator

Flemish (attributed)

Date

1460 (circa) - 1470

Location

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce f. 4

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis.

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