Iconography

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Divination and prophecy / Sibyls / Augustus and the Tiburtine Sibyl / The Sibyl points to the Virgin and Child

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Latin 9584, and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 43-1950 (Tuscany or North-Eastern Italy, c1370-1390) / Chapters 8c-16b (Cambridge, fols. 1-8)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 8: Nativity of Christ / 8c: The flowering rod of Aaron / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 8: Nativity of Christ / 8c: The flowering rod of Aaron / Original composition: Aaron's flowering rod surrounded by the dead rods, outdoors
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 8: Nativity of Christ / 8d: Augustus and the Sibyl have vision of Christ's Nativity / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 8: Nativity of Christ / 8d: Augustus and the Sibyl have vision of Christ's Nativity / Variant: Sibyl and Augustus standing, above them the image of the Virgin and Child or a sun or both
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Numbers / Num. 17:8-9: Aaron's rod blossoms / Type for the Nativity (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Nativity / with Numbers 17:8-9: Aaron's rod (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Numbers / God confirms the offices of the Levites, the Rod of Aaron (Num. 17-18) / Aaron's Rod blossoms (Num. 17:8-9)

Further details

Artist or creator

Tuscan or
Italian (North-Eastern)

Date

1370 (circa) - 1390 (circa)

Location

Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 43-1950

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 1r.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Montague Rhodes James and Bernhard Berenson, Speculum Humanae Salvationis. Being a reproduction of an Italian manuscript of the fourteenth century, Oxford 1926

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