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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 38: Mary protecting the faithful under her cloak / 38a: Mary protecting the faithful under her cloak / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 38: Mary protecting the faithful under her cloak / 38a: Mary protecting the faithful under her cloak / Original composition: Mary without child, protecting the faithful under her cloak
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 38: Mary protecting the faithful under her cloak / 38b: Moses besieged the city of Saba and then fell in love and married Tarbis, daughter of its king / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 38: Mary protecting the faithful under her cloak / 38b: Moses besieged the city of Saba and then fell in love and married Tarbis, daughter of its king / Variant: Moses with his army approaching Saba, with the king or his daughter Tarbis on the walls
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Judges / Jud. 9:53-54: Abimelech attacks the tower of Sichem, is wounded by a stone thrown down by a woman, and asks his armourbearer to kill him / Model for Mary protecting the Faithful (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 1 Kings / 1 Kings 19:12: With Michol's help David escapes through the window / Model for Mary protecting the Faithful (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / Moses stops the siege of Saba after falling in love with Tarbis, daughter of its king / Model for Mary protecting the Faithful (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Hagiographic Scenes with biblical models / Virgin Mary / Mary as Protector and Intercessor / with Moses stopping the siege of Saba after falling in love with Tarbis, daughter of its king (Flavius and Comestor, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Hagiographic Scenes with biblical models / Virgin Mary / Mary as Protector and Intercessor / with Jud. 9:53-54: Abimelech attacks the tower of Sichem, is wounded by a stone thrown down by a woman, and asks his armourbearer to kill him (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Hagiographic Scenes with biblical models / Virgin Mary / Mary as Protector and Intercessor / with 1 Kings 19:12: With Michol's help David escapes through the window (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / Exodus / Childhood of Moses / Moses, as Egyptian general, besieges Saba but then makes peace with it and marries Tarbis, the daughter of its king (Comestor, non-scriptural) / Moses approaches Saba and is seen by Tarbis and her father from the walls
Virgin Mary / Iconography of the Virgin Mary / Mother of Mercy / Without child

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: 17v.

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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