Boston Public Library, MS q Med.106

Metadata

DS ID:

DS3455

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.106

Title:

Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus : in Latin and Italian].

Author:

Pseudo-Joachim, of Fiore

Pseudo-Joachim of Fiore WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy]

Italy TGN

Date:

after 1591].

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 28 leaves : paper, ill. ; 227 x 165 (varies, approx. 150 x 65) mm bound to 24 cm

Former Owner(s):

Art ancien S.A

Art ancien S.A. WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
In Latin and Italian.
Title devised by cataloger.
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.
Secundo folio: La stelle congregara...
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...
Layout: 1 column, approx. 7-10 lines across the lower quarter of the page.
Script: Written in a humanistic cursive in brown ink.
Decoration: 3/4-page illustration on each recto, in brown ink with color wash, some bleed-through, twenty-seven in all.
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.
Origin: Written in northern Italy after 1591 (Innocent IX, the latest named Pope, was enthroned that year).
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".
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.
Call number: MS q Med.106.
Former call number: MS 1534.
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...

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Italian

Inscriptions

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444791

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library