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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 / 4c: The closed gate of the Temple / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 4: Nativity of Mary / 4c: The closed gate of the Temple / Original composition: Wall with a closed gate, with a tower on each side
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
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
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: 15r.
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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