Details

Subjects:

Leo X, Pope, 1475-1521.
Clement VII, Pope, 1478-1534.
Prophecy.
Prophecies.
Italy -- Prophecies -- Early works to 1800.
Italy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Drawings (visual works)
Annotations.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Prophecy details the election of Pope Leo X in the conclave, his subsequent actions in the European church (specifically in Italy, France, and Germany) during his tenure as pope, and predicts the events following Leo's death and the election of Pope Clement VII in 1523. Possibly given to Giovanni Todeschini Piccolomini (Ad Reverendissimum Cardinalem Senense, f.2r), who was the archbishop of Siena (1503-1529) and participated in the conclave of 1523. Appears to have been part of a larger manuscript, as pages are faintly foliated 29-32 in a modern hand. Leaves have been mended along lower and inside edges with strips of modern paper.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from parenthetical incipit (f. 1r).
Collation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 4 + i (modern paper); 1⁴; modern pencil foliation, lower right recto; top margin of f. 1r possibly signed g. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 20 long lines; text block outlined in lead.
Script: Written in a humanistic cursive book script by a single hand, with some contemporary notes in a second hand.
Decoration: Two pen and ink drawings: hand extending from clouds with pointing finger (f. 4r); figure on horseback with lion in foreground, tiara and crowns of the Holy Roman Emperor and the King of France in the background, rider labeled Julius cardinalis (Giulio de' Medici) and lion labeled Leo (Pope Leo), and legend beneath, "Dolus: dolosui insequitur" (f. 4v).
Binding: Modern boards.
Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1523.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal (New York), 1959.

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. 28-29 (Ms. Latin 124).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1141.

Contributor:

Piccolomini, Giovanni d'Andrea di Nanni Todeschini, 1475-1537, former owner.

OCLC:

213812771

Web link:

Collation model

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