[Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus[Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus
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Unknown, 1591
Current format, Unknown, 1591, , No Longer Available.Unknown, 1591
Current format, Unknown, 1591, , No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsA manuscript of the popular Papal prophecies accompanied, as always, by their somewhat obscure allegorical illustrations, spuriously attributed to the abbot Joachim of Fiore but actually a combination of two sets of prophecies; the first group (Prophecies I-XV) was composed around the year 1304, and the remainder, also falsely attributed, but to the mythical bishop Anselm of Marisco, was composed around the year 1328. According to Schwartz and Lerner, the two sets were combined during the pontificate of John XXIII (1410-1415), and this combined set (known by its incipit, "Ascende calve") circulated in many fifteenth-century manuscript copies and in sixteenth-century printed editions (Schwartz and Lerner, p. 159). Each prophecy consists of four parts: a motto, a brief explanatory text, an image, and, for most of the illustrations, an attribution to a particular Pope. In this copy, the motto and text are on recorded on the verso, the allegorical illustration and Italian translation of motto and text on the facing recto. The attributions of prophecy-to-Pope in the present manuscript stray from the routine attributions, beginning with Pope Sixtus IV (1471-84) instead of Nicholas III and proceeding in order as far as Innocent IX (1591). The final nine prophecies have no papal attributions. Prophecies XVIII and XXVI have been skipped outright (it appears that Prophecies II-V are out of order as well, but this is merely because fol. 5 has been misbound and should follow fol. 2; it is also possible that Prophecy XXVI is lacking due to a missing leaf).
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