Iconography

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 / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / Moses stops the siege of Saba after falling in love with Tarbis, daughter of its king / Model for Mary protecting the Faithful (SHS) / Miscellaneous
Typology and Prophecy / Hagiographic Scenes with biblical models / Virgin Mary / Mary as Protector and Intercessor / with Moses stopping the siege of Saba after falling in love with Tarbis, daughter of its king (Flavius and Comestor, SHS) / Miscellaneous
Old Testament / Exodus / Childhood of Moses / Moses, as Egyptian general, besieges Saba but then makes peace with it and marries Tarbis, the daughter of its king (Comestor, non-scriptural) / Moses approaches Saba and is seen by Tarbis and her father from the walls

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. 111

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