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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 40c-45f (Cambridge, fols. 18-25)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 42: Heaven / 42a: The Blessed in Heaven / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 42: Heaven / 42a: The Blessed in Heaven / Variant: Christ venerated by saints or angels
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 42: Heaven / 42b: The Queen of Saba before Solomon / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 42: Heaven / 42b: The Queen of Saba before Solomon / Variant: Queen of Saba stands or kneels before Solomon but does not hold a scroll
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 3 Kings / 3 Kings 10:6-7: The Queen of Saba tells Solomon that his glory surpasses all she could have imagined / Type for Heaven (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Esther / Esth. 1:3-8: Feasts of King Assuerus / Type for Heaven (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Job / Job 1:4: Feast of Job's children / Type for Heaven (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for eschatological scenes / Heaven / with 3 Kings 10:6-7: The Queen of Saba tells Solomon that his glory surpasses all she could have imagined (SHS)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for eschatological scenes / Heaven / with Esth. 1:3-8: Feast of King Assuerus (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for eschatological scenes / Heaven / with Job 1:4: Job's children feasting (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / 3 Kings (A.V. I Kings) / The Queen of Saba (A.V. Sheba) (3 Kings 10) / The Queen of Saba talks to Solomon (3 Kings 10:2-3 and 6-9) / Queen standing, not black
Heaven and Hell / Heaven / The blessed enjoy the vision of Christ

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: 19v.

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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