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LITERATURE

Modern / Comestor, Petrus / Historia Scholastica / Non-biblical Episodes / Genesis - The hammering of Tubal-Cain inspires Jubal to invent harmony

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Glasgow, University Library, Hunter 60 (Bruges, 1454-1455)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 23: Christ nailed to the Cross / 23a: Christ nailed to the Cross / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 23: Christ nailed to the Cross / 23a: Christ nailed to the Cross / Variant: Cross diagonal, Christ being nailed to it but not stretched out with ropes, without Mary or John
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 23: Christ nailed to the Cross / 23b: The hammering of Tubal-Cain, the first smith, inspire Jubal to invent singing / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 23: Christ nailed to the Cross / 23b: The hammering of Tubal-Cain, the first smith, inspire Jubal to invent singing / Variant: Tubal-Cain and an assistant hammering, at the side Jubal with a musical instrument
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 / Original composition: The King of Moab beheads or stabs his son above a city 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 / The hammering of Tubal-Cain, the first smith, inspire Jubal to invent music / Type for Christ 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 the hammering of Tubal-Cain, the first smith, inspiring Jubal to invent singing (Comestor, 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
Old Testament / Genesis / Cain and Abel / Cain and his family (Gen. 4:17-22) / Lamech and his children / The hammering of Tubal-Cain inspires Jubal to invent harmony (Comestor)
Old Testament / 4 Kings (A.V. II Kings) / The kings of Israel, Juda, and Edom, fight against the king of Moab (4 Kings 3) / The besieged King of Moab sacrifices his oldest son on the city walls (4 Kings 3:27) / The King of Moab sacrifices his son
Old Testament / Isaias (A.V. Isaiah) / Isaias sawn asunder (Comestor)
Life of Christ / Passion / Before the Crucifixion / Christ nailed to the cross / Cross not fully raised up, Christ being nailed to the cross but not stretched out with ropes

Further details

Artist or creator

Bruges

Date

1454 - 1455

Location

Glasgow, University Library, Hunter 60 (T.2.18)

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 34r.

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