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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 37c-38b (Cambridge, fol. 17)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 37: Mary interceding for the Sinners / 37c: The woman from Thecua asks David to be merciful to Absalom / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 37: Mary interceding for the Sinners / 37c: The woman from Thecua asks David to be merciful to Absalom / Original composition: The woman stands next to the enthroned David
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 37: Mary interceding for the Sinners / 37d: The woman from Abela appeases Joab by throwing the head of Seba over the wall / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 37: Mary interceding for the Sinners / 37d: The woman from Abela appeases Joab by throwing the head of Seba over the wall / Variant: Joab on horseback
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 2 Kings / 2 Kings 14:4-20: The woman from Thecua asks David to be merciful to Absalom / Model for Mary interceding for the faithful (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 2 Kings / 2 Kings 20:21-22: The woman from Abela appeases Joab by throwing the head of Seba over the wall / Model for Mary interceding for the faithful (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Hagiographic Scenes with biblical models / Virgin Mary / Mary as Protector and Intercessor / with 2 Kings 14:4-20: The woman from Thecua asks David to be merciful to Absalom (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Hagiographic Scenes with biblical models / Virgin Mary / Mary as Protector and Intercessor / with 2 Kings 20:21-22: The woman from Abela appeases Joab by throwing the head of Seba over the wall (SHS)
Old Testament / 2 Kings (A.V. II Samuel) / Ammon and Thamar, first conflict with Absalom (2 Kings 13-14) / Joab and the wise woman of Thecua before David (2 Kings 14:22)
Old Testament / 2 Kings (A.V. II Samuel) / Seba's Rebellion (2 Kings 20) / Seba's head is thrown down from the walls of Abela (2 Kings 2:22)

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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: 17r.

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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