Iconography
LITERATURE
Modern / Comestor, Petrus / Historia Scholastica / Non-biblical Episodes / 4 Kings - Manasses has Isaias sawn in two
RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, CD 1 R (formerly Lipp. 403, Master of Amiens 200, c1450-1460)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 23: Christ nailed to the Cross / 23c: Isaias is sawn into two parts / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 23: Christ nailed to the Cross / 23c: Isaias is sawn into two parts / Original composition: Isaias is suspended upside-down from beams or similar contraptions and sawn asunder by two men, starting at his groin
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 23: Christ nailed to the Cross / 23d: The King of Moab kills his son to end a siege / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 23: Christ nailed to the Cross / 23d: The King of Moab kills his son to end a siege / Variant: The King of Moab beheads or stabs his son on the wall, but not above a gate
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 4 Kings / 4 Kings 3:27: The King of Moab sacrifices his eldest son on the walls to end a siege / Type for Christ being nailed to the Cross (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / Isaias is sawn in two by command of King Manasses / Type for Christ nailed to the Cross (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Christ nailed to the Cross / with 4 Kings 3:27: The King of Moab sacrifices his eldest son on the walls to end a siege (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ / Christ nailed to the Cross / with Isaias sawn into pieces (non-biblical, SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Further details
Artist or creator
Date
1450 (circa) - 1460
Location
Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, CD 1 R (formerly Lipp. 403)
Book, text or document (source of image)
unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 28r.
Rights and Permissions
This material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 3.0 Unported License
Contact
For comments or queries, please contact photographic.collect@sas.ac.uk
IIIF manifest for this object