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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 24b-32b (Cambridge, fols. 9-16)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 27: Entombment of Christ / 27c: Joseph is thrown into the cistern / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 27: Entombment of Christ / 27c: Joseph is thrown into the cistern / Variant: Joseph is lowered down into the cistern, not legs first
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 27: Entombment of Christ / 27d: Jonas is thrown overboard and swallowed by a sea-monster / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 27: Entombment of Christ / 27d: Jonas is thrown overboard and swallowed by a sea-monster / Variant: Most of Jonas's body is already in the water or inside the fish
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Genesis / Gen. 37:23-24: Joseph thrown into the cistern / Type for the Entombment of Christ (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Jonas / Jon. 1:15-2:1: Jonas cast over board and swallowed by the sea-monster / Type for the Entombment of Christ (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Entombment of Christ / with Gen. 37:23-24: Joseph thrown into the cistern (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Entombment of Christ / with Jon. 1:15-2:1: Jonas cast over board and swallowed by the sea-monster (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Genesis / Joseph / Joseph thrown into the well (Gen. 37:23-24)
Old Testament / Jonas (A.V. Jonah) / Jonas cast over board and swallowed by the sea-monster (Jon. 1:15, 2:1)

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: 12r.

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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