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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 6: The Betrothal of Mary to Joseph / 6a: The Betrothal of Mary to Joseph / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 6: The Betrothal of Mary to Joseph / 6a: The Betrothal of Mary to Joseph / Original composition: High Priest stands between Mary and Joseph and joins their hands together
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Tobias / Tobias 7:15-16: Marriage of Tobias and Sara / Type for the Betrothal of Mary and Joseph (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Cantica Canticorum / Cant. 4:4: The Tower of David protected by a thousand bucklers / Type for the Betrothal of the Virgin Mary (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / The tower Baris in Jerusalem could be defended by two men against all enemies / Type for the Betrothal of the Virgin Mary (SHS)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Betrothal of the Virgin Mary to Joseph / with Tob. 7:15-16: Marriage of Tobias and Sara (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Betrothal of the Virgin Mary to Joseph / with Cant. 4:4: The Tower of David protected by a thousand bucklers (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Betrothal of the Virgin Mary to Joseph / with the tower Baris in Jerusalem that could be defended by two men against all enemies (SHS)
Virgin Mary / Life of the Virgin / Betrothal of the Virgin to St Joseph / Without suitors breaking their rods

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: 16v.

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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