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Version of the "Scutum Fidei" or "Shield of the Trinity" diagram (here captioned Scutum fidei Christianae, or "Shield of the Christian faith"); the general diagram has been around since the early 13th century, but this particular variant was devised by Jerome of Prague ca. the early 15th century. There are four nodes and six connecting links (as in the standard diagram), but each node has five separate captions, so that this illustration contains five parallel diagrams (all with the same overall central-positive / peripheral-negative structure):

1st diagram
standard Scutum Fidei or Shield of the Trinity diagram, with Deus ("God") in center, Pater ("Father"), Filius ("Son"), Spiritus sanctus ("Holy Spirit") in outer nodes. See article en:Shield of the Trinity for details.
2nd diagram
aqua ("water") in center, glacies ("ice"), pluvia ("rain"), nix ("snow") in outer nodes.
3rd diagram
anima ("soul") in center, memoria ("memory"), ratio ("reason"), voluntas ("will") in outer nodes.
4th diagram
animal ("animal") in center, aquilla ("eagle"), leo ("lion"), vitulus ("calf") in outer nodes.
5th diagram
homo ("man, human") in center, Augustinus ("Augustine"), Jeronimus ("Jerome"), Ambrosius ("Ambrose") in outer nodes.

Versions of this illustration in other sources apparently have "intellectus" in place of "ratio", "asinus" in place of "vitulus", "rationalis anima" in place of "anima rationalis", and/or correct spelling "aquila" in place of typo "aquilla" etc.

Some of the analogies to the Trinity in the second through fifth diagrams are theologically controversial, and were part of the evidence for heresy accusations against Jerome of Prague.
Date 15th-century manuscript. Jerome of Prague's original diagram was created before 1410.
Source Excerpt from manuscript MS Prague NK ČR, V E 28 (folio 130r) held by the National Library of the Czech Republic, as reproduced in the article "Scutum fidei christianae: The Depiction and Explanation of the Shield of Faith in the Realistic Teaching of Jerome of Prague in the Context of His Interpretation of the Trinity" by Ota Pavlíček, in The Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice 9 (2014) edited by Zdenek V. David and David R. Holeton; see http://brrp.org/vol9.html , http://brrp.org/vol9contents.html , http://brrp.org/proceedings/brrp9/pavlicek.pdf ISBN 978-80-7007-416-9
Author Unknown 15th-century scribe, based on works of Jerome of Prague
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