Vaticinia Pontificum, etc.

Published/Created:

Southern Germany
[between 1325 and 1350]

Physical Description:

ff. 44 : parchment ; 178 x 120 (115 x 70) mm.

Related Links:

https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mars225.htm

Notes:

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.
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.
Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston.

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.

Topics:

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

Topics:

Joachim,--of Fiore,--ca. 1132-1202

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Hand coloring
Illuminated manuscripts
Illustrations
Miniatures (Illuminations)

Format:

Text

Content Type:

Archives or Manuscripts

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Call Number:

Marston MS 225

Orbis Record:

9814791

Orbis Barcode:

39002104685046

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

15949800

Citation:

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.

Extent of digitization:

Complete work digitized.

OID:

2021601

PID:

digcoll:3415415