Iconography

HISTORY

Ancient / Cyrus II of Persia / Astyages dreams that the child with which his daughter is pregnant will destroy his empire

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

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 1a-8b (Paris, fols. 4-6, 14-18)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 3: Annunciation of the Conception of Mary / 3b: Astyages dreams of a vine growing out of his daughter's womb / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 3: Annunciation of the Conception of Mary / 3b: Astyages dreams of a vine growing out of his daughter's womb / Original composition: Astyages in bed, his daughter stands behind the bed, a vine growing out of her
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / Astyages dreams of a vine growing out of his daughter's womb / Type for the Annunciation of the Conception of the Virgin Mary to Anne (SHS, few manuscripts only) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Annunciation of the Conception of the Virgin Mary to Anne / with the dream of Astyages of a vine growing out of his daughter's womb (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis

Further details

This is a fragment - more than half of the illuminated pages are missing (the cut-out miniatures of most of them are now in Cambridge), the remainder is misbound in many places.

Artist or creator

Tuscan or
Italian (North-Eastern)

Date

1370 (circa) - 1390 (circa)

Location

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 9584

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 6v.

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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