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 / Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Douce f 4 (probably Flemish, c1460-1470, fragment)
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 / Variant: The vessel is broken, the chick liberated
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
Flemish (attributed)
Date
1460 (circa) - 1470
Location
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce f. 4
Book, text or document (source of image)
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