Iconography

HISTORY

Ancient / Antipater (Father of Herod) / Antipater showing his battle scars to Caesar, to prove both his loyalty and his courage

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

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 38c-40b (Paris, fols. 12-13)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 39: Christ and Mary interceding for the faithful / 39b: Antipater shows his battle scars to Caesar / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 39: Christ and Mary interceding for the faithful / 39b: Antipater shows his battle scars to Caesar / Original composition: Antipater stands before the enthroned Caesar
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / Antipater showing his battle scars to Caesar / Model for Christ showing His wounds the Father (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Catechetical images with typological models / Christ interceding with the Father / with Antipater showing his wounds to Caesar (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

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: 12v.

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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