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LITERATURE

Modern / Comestor, Petrus / Historia Scholastica / Non-biblical Episodes / 3 Kings - Solomon imprisons an ostrich chick in a glass vessel - the ostrich liberates it by squirting the blood of a worm onto the glass

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 28: Christ entering Limbo / 28b: Three Hebrews in the fiery furnace protected by an angel / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 28: Christ entering Limbo / 28c: Habacuc brings food to Daniel in the lions' den / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 28: Christ entering Limbo / 28c: Habacuc brings food to Daniel in the lions' den / Variant: Daniel in a prison or on a tower, often with the king watching
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 28: Christ entering Limbo / 28d: The ostrich dissolves a glass vessel with the blood of a worm to liberate its chick inside / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 28: Christ entering Limbo / 28d: The ostrich dissolves a glass vessel with the blood of a worm to liberate its chick inside / Variant: Ostrich with the worm outside, the vessel shows first cracks
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Daniel / Dan. 3:49-50: An angel protects the Hebrews in the fiery furnace / Type for the Harrowing of Hell (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ entering Limbo)
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Daniel / Dan. 14:36-38: Daniel fed by Habacuc in the lions' den / Type for the Harrowing of Hell (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ entering Limbo)
Typology and Prophecy / Non-biblical narratives treated as Types / The ostrich liberates its chick imprisoned by Solomon in a glass vessel by squirting the blood of a worm onto it / Type for the Harrowing of Hell (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ entering Limbo)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Harrowing of Hell / with the Ostrich liberating its chick imprisoned by Solomon in a glass vessel by squirting the blood of a worm onto it (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ entering Limbo)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Harrowing of Hell / with Dan. 3:49-50: An angel protects the Hebrews in the fiery furnace (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ entering Limbo)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Resurrection of Christ to the Coronation of the Virgin / Harrowing of Hell / with Dan. 14:36-38: Daniel fed by Habacuc in the lions' den (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ entering Limbo)
Old Testament / Daniel / Daniel in the lions' den (Dan. 6 and 14) / In the lions' den - without king / with Habacuc and angel

Further details

Artist or creator

Master of Amiens 200 (active c1454-1480)

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: 32v.

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