Details

Other Title:

Prophetie 1470
Prophetia anonymi.

Subjects:

Prophecy -- Early works to 1800.
Prophecies.
Prophecy.
Italy -- Prophecies -- Early works to 1800.
Jerusalem -- History -- Prophecies.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Collection of alleged prophetic predictions supposedly given in Jerusalem in 1470, which describe the conquest of Milan, conflagration in Brescia, destruction of Bologna and Ferrara, pestilence, and the delivery of Jerusalem from the Saracens between 1484 and 1509, later recorded in Germany.

Notes:

Ms. leaves.
Title from caption heading (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 2 + i (modern paper); [1-2]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Written in a late secretary script by a single hand.
Binding: Modern boards.
Origin: Written in Germany, probably between 1475 and 1499.

Penn Provenance:

"Homo hominibus 1874" with entwined O and M (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc. (New York), 1961.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 36 (Ms. Latin 156)

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 921

OCLC:

181169138