Iconography

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 / Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, MS I.II.11 (perhaps Catalan, second quarter 15th century)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 5: The Presentation of Mary in the Temple / 5c: Jephte sacrifices his daughter / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 5: The Presentation of Mary in the Temple / 5c: Jephte sacrifices his daughter / Variant: Jephte's daughter kneels on the ground, he stands besides and prepares to behead her
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 / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Judges / Jud. 11:39: Jephte sacrifices his daughter / Type for the Presentation of the Virgin (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
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 Jud. 11:39: Jephte sacrifices his daughter (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)
Old Testament / Judges / Jephte (Jud. 11-12) / Jephte sacrifices his daughter (Jud. 11:39)

Further details

Artist or creator

Catalonia (attributed)

Date

15th century (second quarter) localised and dated because of similarity with Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Douce 204

Location

Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, I.II.11

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 9v.

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