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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 1a-8b (Paris, fols. 4-6, 14-18)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 4: Nativity of Mary / 4a: Nativity of Mary / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 4: Nativity of Mary / 4a: Nativity of Mary / Variant: Anne in bed, holding Mary, above them an angel, Joachim absent
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 4: Nativity of Mary / 4b: The tree of Jesse / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 4: Nativity of Mary / 4b: The tree of Jesse / Variant: Jesse lying in a bed, in the tree image of the Virgin Mary, without other ancestors
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 3 Kings / 3 Kings 6:2-10: The building of the Temple / Type for the Birth of Mary (SHS)
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Isaias / Isa 11:1-3: Vision of the tree of Jesse / Type for the Birth of Mary (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Ezechiel / Ez. 44:1-3: Vision of the closed gate that shall only open for the prince / Type for the Birth of Mary (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Birth of the Virgin Mary / with 3 Kings 6:2-10: The building of the Temple (SHS)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Birth of the Virgin Mary / with Isa. 11:1: Prophecy of the Tree of Jesse (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Birth of the Virgin Mary / with Ez. 44:1-3: Vision of the closed gate that shall only open for the prince (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Genealogy of Christ / Tree of Jesse / Tree with Virgin only
Virgin Mary / Life of the Virgin / Birth of the Virgin / Virgin held by St Anne

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: 14v.

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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