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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3456

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.107

Title:

Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus

Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus

Author:

Pseudo-Joachim, of Fiore

Pseudo-Joachim of Fiore WIKIDATA

Place:

Florence?

Florence TGN

Date:

between 1475 and 1500

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 20 (of at least 32) leaves : parchment ; 200 x 130 (width is approx. 85) mm bound to 21 cm, in box 23 cm

Former Owner(s):

Art ancien S.A

Art ancien S.A. WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex (fragmentary).
In Latin.
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.
Collation: Parchment, fol. 20 ; 18−4 (lacking two leaves after fol. 1 and two after fol. 3, i.e. two bifolia), 28−2 (lacking two leaves after fol. 7, i.e. the innermost bifolium), 38−4 (lacking two leaves after fol. 11 and two after fol. 13, i.e. two bifolia), 48−2 (lacking one leaf before fol. 15 and one after fol. 20, i.e. the outermost bifolium) ; 17th-century brown ink arabic numerals in...
Layout: 1 column, approximately 30 lines on a full page.
Script: Written in a humanistic cursive in brown ink.
Decoration: 2-line initials begin each prophecy, red with purple harping and filigree or blue with red. Twenty-one full-page illustrations (lacking ten).
Binding: Rebound by BPL conservators in 1987 and tacked together in correct order, laid in modern leather over pasteboard, brown paste paper covers, no spine, green cloth clamshell box with "Joachim abbas" on typescript label.
Origin: Written in Italy in the late 15th century.
Immediate source of acquisition: Bought in 1949 from L'Art Ancien, Zurich (catalog 37, no. 8, with BPL MS q Med.106). BPL plate inside front cover.
Call number: MS q Med.107.
Former call number: MS 1535.

Keyword:

Paste paper bindings

humanistic scripts

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Italy

Manuscripts, Medieval

Massachusetts--Boston

Popes

Illustrated works

Early works

Popes--Prophecies

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444792

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/ng455g25b/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library