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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 5: The Presentation of Mary in the Temple / 5c: Jephte sacrifices his daughter / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 5: The Presentation of Mary in the Temple / 5c: Jephte sacrifices his daughter / Original composition: Jephte's daughter kneels on an altar with a fire, he stands beside and lifts his sword
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Judges / Jud. 11:39: Jephte sacrifices his daughter / Type for the Presentation of the Virgin (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: 16r.
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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