(photo on external web page)

	Iconography
	LITERATURE
	Modern
	→ Comestor, Petrus → Historia Scholastica → Non-biblical Episodes → 2 Machabees - The tower Baris in Jerusalem, built by high priest Alexander Jannaeus, could be defended by two men against all enemies
	MAGIC & SCIENCE
	Divination and prophecy
	→ Sibyls → Augustus and the Tiburtine Sibyl → Augustus alone
	Geography
	→ Topography → Countries A-Z → Palestine / Israel → Jerusalem → The Tower Baris
	RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
	Typology and Prophecy
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Manuscripts → Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Douce f 4 (probably Flemish, c1460-1470, fragment)
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 8: Nativity of Christ → 8d: Augustus and the Sibyl have vision of Christ's Nativity → All images
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 8: Nativity of Christ → 8d: Augustus and the Sibyl have vision of Christ's Nativity → Variant: Augustus alone with the vision of the Virgin and Child
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 6: The Betrothal of Mary to Joseph → 6c: The Tower Baris that could be defended by two men against all enemies → All images
	→ Cycles → Manuscripts and Prints → Speculum humanae salvationis → Chapter 6: The Betrothal of Mary to Joseph → 6c: The Tower Baris that could be defended by two men against all enemies → Variant: A ruler, a tower and the Virgin Mary (perhaps a misunderstood scene)
	→ Antitypes for episodes from the Infancy of Christ → Betrothal of the Virgin Mary to Joseph → with the tower Baris in Jerusalem that could be defended by two men against all enemies (SHS)
	→ Non-biblical narratives treated as Types → The tower Baris in Jerusalem could be defended by two men against all enemies → Type for the Betrothal of the Virgin Mary (SHS)

	Further details
	This image should be an illustration of chapter 6c but it looks unlike other images of the tower of Baris. Possible, it is a illustration for chapter 8d (Augustus and the Sibyl) drawn on the wrong page
	ARTIST/CREATOR
	Flemish (attributed)
	DATE
	circa 1460 - 1470
	LOCATION
	Oxford, Bodleian Library → Douce f. 46c (fol. 3v)
	TEXT/BOOK/DOCUMENT (SOURCE OF PHOTO)
	Speculum humanae salvationis (fol. 3v)

	Acknowledgements
	Photo: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Used with kind permission of the Bodleian Libraries

	Contact
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