As mentioned in the caption for the women with the torches, the source is Speculum Humanae Salvationis of c. 1360 (Darmstadt). The shelfmark is ULB Darmstadt Hs 2505, from Westfalen, Germany.

JKP – sorry to comment here on a different post, but can’t seem to access comments for your ‘Ecclesia’ post.

I’ve been unable to find another reference to the manuscript with that fascinating illustration of the torch-carrying women. Might I trouble you for more details about the holding library and the ms’ shelf-number and so on. (A folio number for that illustration would be nice, if you can).

It may well be that Cardon’s paper of 1992 is out of date, but I add a little from it, in case it may be of interest to you.

“The group can be called the Stavelot-Einsiedeln group after two manuscripts. The first and oldest one dates from 1428 and was transcribed, illuminated and bound, together with other historical texts, in a voluminous codex by the monk and historian Jean de Stavelot of the abbey of Saint- Laurent in Liège. It is now preserved at the Royal Library at Brussels.

The second, in the library of the abbey of Einsiedeln, is one of several richly illuminated Specula some thirty years later in date for which the Stavelot manuscript very probably served as an exemplar…

Besides these manuscripts with the Latin version of the treatise, two others with a French, actually Picard, prose version {Miroir de la Salvation Humaine) are part of the group: Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale MS.fr.460 and Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum, MS xi/9.5 Both these manuscripts… must be dated somewhat later.”

I am more interested in the Picard prose version, despite its date, but the image in your post is certainly evocative.

Thank you.

Yes, I am familiar with it, but I don’t think I’ve mentioned it in my blogs and I’m sure readers will be interested, so thank you for providing the link.