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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 36: Dormition, Assumption and Coronation of Mary / 36c: The Apocalyptic Woman / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 36: Dormition, Assumption and Coronation of Mary / 36c: The Apocalyptic Woman / Original composition: Apocalyptic Woman with wings
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 36: Dormition, Assumption and Coronation of Mary / 36d: Solomon invites his mother Bethsabee to sit at his right side and promises not to deny her any request / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 36: Dormition, Assumption and Coronation of Mary / 36d: Solomon invites his mother Bethsabee to sit at his right side and promises not to deny her any request / Variant: Solomon and Bethsabee sit side by side, not holding scrolls
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 3 Kings / 3 Kings 2:19: Solomon honours Bethsabee / Type for the Coronation of the Virgin (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Passages from the New Testament treated as Types and Prophecies / Apocalypse (Revelation) / Rev. 12:1: The Apocalyptic Woman / Type for the Coronation of the Virgin (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Coronation of the Virgin Mary / with 3 Kings 2:19: Solomon honours Bethsabee (BP, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Coronation of the Virgin Mary / with Rev. 12:1: Apocalyptic Woman (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Old Testament / 3 Kings (A.V. I Kings) / David's old age and succession (3 Kings 1-2) / Solomon honours his mother Bethsabee (3 Kings 2:19)
Virgin Mary / Iconography of the Virgin Mary / Virgin of the Apocalypse / Without Child / With wings

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: 10r.

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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