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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / London, British Library, Add MS 16578 (Lower Bavaria, 1378, incomplete set)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 3: Annunciation of the Conception of Mary / 3d: Balaam (Bileam) and the angel / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 3: Annunciation of the Conception of Mary / 3d: Balaam (Bileam) and the angel / Variant: The angel, with a lifted sword, confronts Balaam, who lifts his scourge or club, above a star
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Numbers / Num. 22:21-27: An angel blocking the way of Bileam's ass / Type for the Annuncation of the Conception of the Virgin Mary to Joachim (SHS)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Annunciation of the Conception of the Virgin Mary to Joachim / with Num. 22:21-27: An angel blocking the way of Bileam's ass (SHS)
Old Testament / Numbers / Balaam (Bileam) and Balak (Num. 22-24) / Balaam's ass stopped by an angel (Num. 22:22-30)

Further details

Artist or creator

Lower Bavaria The colophon names the scribe Ulricus de Osterhoven

Date

1379

Location

London, British Library, Add MS 16578

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 6r.

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