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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Nová Riše, Kanonie sv. Petra a Pavla, Ms 80 (Master of the Brno Speculum, c1415-1425)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 3: Annunciation of the Conception of Mary / 3c: The Garden Enclosed and Fountain Sealed Up / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 3: Annunciation of the Conception of Mary / 3c: The Garden Enclosed and Fountain Sealed Up / Original composition: Garden with circular walls, inside a simple well, often with rope and bucket above, not always clearly sealed
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 Annunciation of the Conception of the Virgin Mary to Anne (SHS, few manuscripts only, the text refers to the prophecy of the star rather than this episode) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / Cantica Canticorum / Cant. 4:12: The bride as enclosed garden and sealed fountain / Type for the Annunciation of the Conception of the Virgin Mary to Anne (SHS, few manuscripts only)
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Annunciation of the Conception of the Virgin Mary to Anne / with Num. 22:21-27: An angel blocking the way of Bileam's ass (SHS, few manuscripts only) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ / Annunciation of the Conception of the Virgin Mary to Anne / with Cant. 4:12: The bride as enclosed garden and sealed fountain (SHS, few manuscripts only)
Old Testament / Numbers / Balaam (Bileam) and Balak (Num. 22-24) / Balaam's ass stopped by an angel (Num. 22:22-30)
Virgin Mary / Symbols / Symbols taken from the Bible / Cant. 4:12: Hortus conclusus soror mea, sponsa, hortus conclusus, fons signatus (My sister, my spouse, is a garden enclosed, a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up)

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Artist or creator

Master of the Brno Speculum (active Netherlands, c1410-1425)

Date

1415 (circa) - 1425

Location

Nová Riše, Kanonie sv. Petra a Pavla, 80

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 3r.

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