(photo on external web page)

	Iconography
	RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
	Old Testament
	→ Canticles (A.V. Song of Songs) → Cant. 4:4: Bridegroom: Sicut turris David collum tuum ... mille clypei pendant ex ea, omnis armatura fortium (Bridegroom: Thy neck is as the tower of David ... a thousand bucklers hang upon it ..)
	Typology and Prophecy
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Manuscripts → Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek, Oettingen-Wallersteinsche Bibliothek Cod.I.2.2.23 (South-Western Germany, c1350)
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 6: The Betrothal of Mary to Joseph → 6d: The Tower of David covered in shields → All images
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 6: The Betrothal of Mary to Joseph → 6d: The Tower of David covered in shields → Original composition: Tower apparently rectangular, seen from one side, with crenellation and numerous shields, some on protruding lances
	→ Types and Prophecies from the Old Testament → Cantica Canticorum → Cant. 4:4: The Tower of David protected by a thousand bucklers → Type for the Betrothal of the Virgin Mary (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis
	→ Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ → Betrothal of the Virgin Mary to Joseph → with Cant. 4:4: The Tower of David protected by a thousand bucklers (SHS) → Speculum Humanae Salvationis
	SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY
	Coats-of-Arms
	→ Fictive → Biblical figures → David's tower

	Further details
	ARTIST/CREATOR
	Southern German probably since the 15th century in St Mang's Abbey, Füssen
	DATE
	circa 1350
	LOCATION
	Augsburg, Universitätsbibliothek → Cod.I.2.2.23 (Oettingen-Wallersteinsche Bibliothek), fol. 9v
	TEXT/BOOK/DOCUMENT (SOURCE OF PHOTO)
	Speculum humanae salvationis

	Acknowledgements
	Images on external web-page, used with kind permission of the Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg

	Contact
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