Iconography
	MAGIC & SCIENCE
	Divination and prophecy
	→ Sibyls → Cycles → Oracula sibyllina (Blockbook)
	RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
	Life of Christ
	→ Passion → Trial of Christ → Buffetting of Christ (Mt. 26:67f., Mc. 14:65, Lc. 22:63-65) → Christ blindfolded
	Saints
	→ Evangelists → Mark → Single Figure
	Typology and Prophecy
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Sibyls and Prophets → Oracula Sibyllina (Blockbook)
	→ Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament → Isaias → Isa. 50:6: Faciem meam non averti ab increpantibus et conspuentibus in me → Prophecy for Christ being blindfolded and beaten by the soldiers
	→ Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament → Psalms 51-100 → Psalm 68:8: Operuit confusio faciem meam → Prophecy for Christ being blindfolded and beaten by the soldiers
	→ Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ → Buffeting of Christ → with Isa. 50:6: Faciem meam non averti ab increpantibus et conspuentibus in me
	→ Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ → Buffeting of Christ → with Psalm 68:8: Operuit confusio faciem meam
	→ Antitypes for episodes from the Passion of Christ → Buffeting of Christ → with the Tiburtine Sibyl
	→ Sibylline oracles paralleled with biblical scenes → Tiburtine Sibyl → with the Buffeting of Christ

	Further details
	ARTIST/CREATOR
	Swabian after Netherlandish
	DATE
	1470 - 1475
	LOCATION
	St Gall, Stiftsbibliothek
	TEXT/BOOK/DOCUMENT (SOURCE OF PHOTO)
	Oracula sibyllina (Blockbook), H2

	Notes on photograph
	BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
	Oracula Sibyllina (Weissagungen der zwölf Sibyllen) nach dem einzigen, in der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen aufbewahrten Exemplare, ed. P. Heitz, Strassburg 1903 (source of photograph)

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