(Q17147)
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Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus : in Latin and Italian].
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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Manuscripts, Italian--Massachusetts--Boston
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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after 1591].
16. century
1591
1591
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Extent: 28 leaves : paper, ill. ; 227 x 165 (varies, approx. 150 x 65) mm bound to 24 cm
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Ms. codex.
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In Latin and Italian.
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Title devised by cataloger.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Contact BPL Rare Books and Manuscripts Department for further descriptive documentation.
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Secundo folio: La stelle congregara...
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Collation: Paper, with watermarks: a running saint holding a crucifix, all within a shield, similar to Briquet 7628 (Fabriano 1602) and 7629 (Rome 1566); and an eagle in a circle on three hills, fol. 27-28 only, fol. iv + 28 + iv ; 14−1 (fol. 5 a misbound singleton), 224−3 (lacking two leaves after fol. 25 and one leaf after fol. 26), 32 (too tight to collate manually; collation based on the...
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Layout: 1 column, approx. 7-10 lines across the lower quarter of the page.
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Script: Written in a humanistic cursive in brown ink.
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Decoration: 3/4-page illustration on each recto, in brown ink with color wash, some bleed-through, twenty-seven in all.
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Binding: 19th-century green morocco over boards, gilt fillet borders and edges, gilt filigree turn-ins, gilt-stamped corner florets, spine filigree gilt in compartments, title gilt-stamped on spine: "Profezie/ Pontificie/ dell'abat/ Gioachino/ e di / Giov. Mari/da/ Carallo"; marbled pastedowns and endleaves, 19th-century paper flyleaves.
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Origin: Written in northern Italy after 1591 (Innocent IX, the latest named Pope, was enthroned that year).
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Provenance: Title written in Italian, seventeenth century, on fol. 1: "Profeziei Pontificie del Abate Gioachimo/ agiunta alle profezie del Padre Giovanni Maria da Verallo Vercellese".
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Immediate source of acquisition: Bought in 1949 from L'Art Ancien, Zurich (cat. 37. 1949. no. 8a, with BPL MS q Med.107) (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 19031). BPL plate inside front cover, BPLQ article pasted inside rear cover.
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Call number: MS q Med.106.
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Former call number: MS 1534.
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Bibliography: BPL Quarterly IV (1952): 200-209; R. Lerner, "On the Origins of the Earliest Latin Pope Prophecies: A Reconsideration, Falschungen im Mittelalter," MGH, Schriften 33, 5 (Hanover, 1988): 611-635; R. Lerner et al., Vaticinia Pontificum: Cod. Vat. Ross. 374 (Milan, 1987); H. Millet and D. Rigaux, "Ascende Calve: Quand l'historien joue au prophète," Studi Medievali XXXIII (1992), pp...
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28 November 2023
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28 November 2023
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