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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 32c-37b (Paris, fols. 7, 8, 11, 9, 10)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 34: Pentecost / 34a: Pentecost / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 34: Pentecost / 34a: Pentecost / Variant: Dove connected with fiery lines to Mary and the Apostles
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Genesis / Gen. 11:1-9: Building of the Tower of Babel / Type for Pentecost (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Exodus / Exod. 19:16-19, 20:21 and 31:18: The giving of the Law on Sinai / Type for Pentecost (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 3 Kings / 3 Kings 17:23: After Elias's prayer the oil-jar of the widow of Sarephta never becomes empty / Type for Pentecost (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Pentecost / with Gen. 11:1-9: Building of the Tower of Babel (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Pentecost / with Exod. 19:16-19, 20:21 and 31:18: The giving of the Law on Sinai (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Pentecost / with 3 Kings 17:23: After Elias's prayer the oil-jar of the widow of Sarephta never becomes empty (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Acts of the Apostles / Pentecost / The descent of the Holy Spirit / Virgin present / With tongues of flame descending

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: 8v.

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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