Vaticinia Pontificum, etc
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2021601
Description
- Title
- Vaticinia Pontificum, etc
- Published / Created
- [between 1325 and 1350]
- Publication Place
- Southern Germany
- Abstract
-
Manuscript on parchment of Ps.-Joachim da Fiore, Vaticinia Pontificum. With additional prophetic texts including a Sibylline tract entitled De imperatore; and a Version of the "Tripoli" prophecy, added by a late 15th- or early 16th-century hand, here recorded as a vision in a Cistercian monastery in 1346
- Description
-
In Latin.
Script: Arts. 2-4 written in neat gothic bookhand. Art. 1 in a less formal bookhand and art. 5 in a notarial hand with various flourishes.
15 small miniatures, 12-line, within narrow ochre frames inserted into text column, one for each prophecy in art. 3, ff. 15r-22r. The miniatures depict a cycle of Popes and city scapes with emblematic attributes against pink, blue and ochre grounds with small white filigree designs along the edges. Numerous flourished initials, 2-line, alternate in red and blue with purple or red penwork designs. Headings in red. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue.
Binding: Fifteenth century (?). Tacketed through a limp vellum (palimpsest?) wrapper to thick leather pads with a basket weave around the sewing threads. Contemporary title in ink, on front: "De imperatore." Backs of quires cut in for sewing. - Provenance
- Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston.
- Extent
- ff. 44 : 178 x 120 (115 x 70) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Marston MS 225
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Joachim, of Fiore, approximately 1132-1202.
- Subject (Topic)
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Papacy
History
Prophecies
Visions - Subjects
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Joachim, of Fiore, approximately 1132-1202
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Papacy > History
Prophecies > Early works to 1800
Visions > Early works to 1800
Germany > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Vaticinia Pontificum, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9814791
- Object ID (OID)
- 2021601
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