Iconography
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 / Königsberg, Stadtbibliothek, Cod. S. 18.2 (dispersed) / Chapter 28d-29b(Collection Grigoryants)
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 / Ostrich with worm next to vessel, in which the chick is not visible
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 29: Christ vanquishing the devil in Limbo through His Passion / 29a: Christ vanquishes the devil in limbo / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 29: Christ vanquishing the devil in Limbo through His Passion / 29a: Christ vanquishes the devil in limbo / Variant: Christ argues with the devil
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 2 Kings / 2 Kings 23:20: Banaias kills a lion in a pit / Type for the Harrowing of Hell (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ vanquishing the devil in 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 2 Kings 23:20: Banaias kills a lion in a pit (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Type for Christ vanquishing the devil in 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)
Further details
The right image is difficult to describe - apparently, Christ is not trampling the devil
Artist or creator
Date
1426
Location
Moscow, Collection S. I. Grigoryants (formerly Moscow, Collection I. G. Sanowich)
Book, text or document (source of image)
Notes on photograph
Bibliographic Citation
Ekaterina Zolotova, Western European Book Miniatures of the 12th-17th Centuries. Catalogue of illuminated manuscripts in Moscow Libraries, Museums and Private Collection, Moskva 2012, pp. 268-271, 434-436, no. 134
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