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Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Manuscripts / Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Konsistorialbibliothek, WD 107 (Southern Germany, Mid-15th century)
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 42: Heaven / 42b: The Queen of Saba before Solomon / All images
Typology and Prophecy / Cycles / Manuscripts and Prints / Speculum humanae salvationis / Chapter 42: Heaven / 42b: The Queen of Saba before Solomon / Variant: Queen of Saba stands or kneels before Solomon but does not hold a scroll
Typology and Prophecy / Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament / 3 Kings / 3 Kings 10:6-7: The Queen of Saba tells Solomon that his glory surpasses all she could have imagined / Type for Heaven (SHS) / Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Typology and Prophecy / Antitypes for eschatological scenes / Heaven / with 3 Kings 10:6-7: The Queen of Saba tells Solomon that his glory surpasses all she could have imagined (SHS)
Old Testament / 3 Kings (A.V. I Kings) / The Queen of Saba (A.V. Sheba) (3 Kings 10) / The Queen of Saba talks to Solomon (3 Kings 10:2-3 and 6-9) / Queen standing, not black

Further details

Artist or creator

German (southern)

Date

15th century (middle) one fascicle of the composite manuscript is dated to 1452

Location

Rothenburg ob der Tauber (Lower Franconia), Konsistorialbibliothek (kept in the Stadtarchiv), WD 107

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Speculum humanae salvationis. Folio: 87v.

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