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ARCHITECTURE

France / Mulhouse (Mühlhausen) / St-Étienne / Typological Windows (re-installed in the modern church)

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Stained Glass / Mulhouse, Saint-Étienne (Upper Rhine, c1340-1350, after the Speculum)
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Numbers / Num. 22:21-27: An angel blocking the way of Bileam's ass / Type for Annunciation of the Conception of the Virgin Mary to Anne (SHS, few manuscripts only, the text refers to the prophecy of the star rather than this episode) / Miscellaneous
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Annunciation of the Conception of the Virgin Mary to Anne / with Num. 22:21-27: An angel blocking the way of Bileam's ass (SHS, few manuscripts only) / Miscellaneous
Old Testament / Numbers / Balaam (Bileam) and Balak (Num. 22-24) / Balaam's ass stopped by an angel (Num. 22:22-30)

Further details

Since the original arrangement of the windows is not clear, they are numbered here according to the position of the image in the Speculum Humanae Salvationis

Artist or creator

Upper Rhine

Date

1340 (circa) - 1350

Location

Mulhouse, Saint-Étienne

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

J. Lutz and P. Perdrizet, Speculum Humanae Salvationis. Kritische Ausgabe, vol. 2, Mühlhausen and Leipzig, 1909, pl. 101

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