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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 11: Fall of idols during the Flight into Egypt / 11c: The young Moses, having broken Pharao's crown, feigns madness by eating burning coals / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 11: Fall of idols during the Flight into Egypt / 11c: The young Moses, having broken Pharao's crown, feigns madness by eating burning coals / Original composition: On one side Pharao enthroned, then Moses, the executioner preparing to behead him, and a man holding a brazier with coals
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 11: Fall of idols during the Flight into Egypt / 11d: Nabuchodonosor dreams of a statue that is destroyed by a stone / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 11: Fall of idols during the Flight into Egypt / 11d: Nabuchodonosor dreams of a statue that is destroyed by a stone / Variant: Statue in the centre, behind Nabuchodonosor's bed, not collapsing
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Daniel / Dan. 2:34: Nabuchodonosor dreams of a statue that is destroyed by a stone / Type for the Fall of Idols at the Flight into Egypt (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / The young Moses, having broken Pharao's crown, feigns madness by eating burning coals / Type for the Fall of Idols at the Flight into Egypt (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Fall of the idols in Egypt / with The young Moses, having broken Pharao's crown, feigns madness by eating burning coals (Comestor, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Fall of the idols in Egypt / with Dan. 2:34: Nabuchodonosor dreams of a statue that is destroyed by a stone (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Exodus / Childhood of Moses / Moses tramples or breaks the crown of Pharaoh (Comestor, non-scriptural) / Moses feigns madness by eating burning coals and so is not punished
Old Testament / Daniel / Nabuchodonosor's (A. V. Nebuchadnezzar's) first dream (Dan. 2) / Nabuchodonosor dreams of the statue (Dan. 2:1) / Sleeping king with the statue still standing / King sleeping outdoors
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Artist or creator
Date
1370 (circa) - 1390 (circa)
Location
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 43-1950
Book, text or document (source of image)
unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 4r.
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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