Vaticinia Pontificum, etc.
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2021601
Description
- Title
- Vaticinia Pontificum, etc.
- Contributor
- Joachim,--of Fiore,--ca. 1132-1202
- Published / Created
- [between 1325 and 1350]
- Publication Place
- Southern Germany
- Abstract
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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
-
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.
Binding: Place uncertain, s. xv [?]. 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.
Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston.
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. - Extent
- ff. 44 : parchment ; 178 x 120 (115 x 70) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Marston MS 225
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- text
- Genre
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Hand coloring
Illuminated manuscripts
Illustrations
Miniatures (Illuminations) - Resource Type
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Name)
- Joachim,--of Fiore,--ca. 1132-1202
- Subject (Topic)
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Papacy--History
Prophecies--Early works to 1800
Visions--Early works to 1800
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
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Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Marston MS 225.
Vaticinia Pontificum, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9814791
- Object ID (OID)
- 2021601
- More Information
- https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mars225.htm
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