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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 14: Mary Magdalene anointing Christ's feet / 14c: Return of the Prodigal Son / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 14: Mary Magdalene anointing Christ's feet / 14c: Return of the Prodigal Son / Variant: Son approaches father, with one or more servants in attendance
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 14: Mary Magdalene anointing Christ's feet / 14d: Nathan promises forgiveness to the penitent David / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 14: Mary Magdalene anointing Christ's feet / 14d: Nathan promises forgiveness to the penitent David / Variant: David enthroned, Nathan standing
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 2 Kings / 2 Kings 12:1-13: Nathan rebukes David who asks for God's mercy / Type for Mary Magdalen anointing Christ's feet (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Passages from the New Testament treated as Types and Prophecies / Luke / Luke 15:20-24: Return of the Prodigal Son / Type for Mary Magdalene washing Christ's feet (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Ministry of Christ / Mary Magdalene anoints Christ's feet / with 2 Kings 12:1-13: Nathan rebukes David who asks for God's mercy (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Ministry of Christ / Mary Magdalene anoints Christ's feet / with Luke 15:20-24: Return of the Prodigal Son (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / 2 Kings (A.V. II Samuel) / David and Bethsabee (Bathsheba) (2 Kings 11-12) / Nathan rebukes David but also promises forgiveness, once David repents (2 Kings 12:7-12, title of Psalm 50)
Life of Christ / Ministry / Parables / The prodigal son / Return of the prodigal son

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: 7r.

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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