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HISTORY

Ancient / Nabuchodonosor's Queen / Looks from the Hanging Gardens to her home country

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Geography / The earth / Seven Wonders of the World / Individual / Hanging Gardens of Babylon

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Douce 204 (Catalonia or Rousillon, c1430-1450)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 5: The Presentation of Mary in the Temple / 5d: The Queen of Babylon looks from the Hanging Gardens to her home country / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 5: The Presentation of Mary in the Temple / 5d: The Queen of Babylon looks from the Hanging Gardens to her home country / Original composition: Queen standing on a tower on which trees are planted, alone
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / The Queen of Babylon looks from the Hanging Gardens to her home country / Type for the Presentation of the Virgin (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Presentation of the Virgin / with the Queen of Babylon looking from the Hanging Gardens to her home country (SHS)

Further details

Artist or creator

Catalonia or
Roussillon

Date

1430 (circa) - 1450

Location

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 204

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 5v.

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