Abstract
Taking as its point of departure a series of miniatures accompanying the chronicle of Otto of Freising in the MS Jena Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bose q. 6, the present article explores the use of biblical typology and imagery in the Chronica sive historia de duabus civitatibus. The analysis of Otto’s symbolism and figurative language demonstrates that he not only develops and elaborates typologies found in his sources, but also invents his own typologies. In several cases, Otto establishes typological patterns by implicit associations or allusions, but he also explicitly makes use of technical terms such as typus. Most of the examples discussed below are semi-biblical typologies in which a biblical type prefigures a historical antitype. Typologies related to the theory of the two cities are also frequent.
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