Details

Subjects:

Innocent IV, Pope, approximately 1200-1254.
Astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Astrology.
Horoscopes.
Papacy -- Early works to 1800.
Papacy.
Prophecy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Commentaries.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Biography/History:

Rabanus Anglicus probably lived during the late 13th-early 14th centuries; he is primarily associated with mystic texts like the Horoscopus and the angelic sequence of the Vaticinia. Cyril of Constantinople was often mistaken for either Cyril of Jerusalem or Cyril of Alexandria; he was a late 12th/early 13th-century Carmelite to whom prophecies were attributed.

Summary:

First work is astrologically concerned with the popes beginning with Nicholas III (1277-1280) and leaving off at Benedict XI (1303-1304); it has generally been dated to 1303-1305. Its incipit claims the work was translated from Hebrew to Latin by Dandalus Ylardensis. Second work is a commentary on a set of prophecies, possibly the Vaticinia de summis pontificibus. Third work is a section of the Vaticinia, a series of manuscript prophecies concerning the papacy which was originially derived from the Byzantine Leo Oracles (12th century) and augmented with further prophecies in the 14th century, pertaining to Innocent IV. Fourth work is a commentary, most likely by Joachim de Fiore, about the papacy. Fifth and sixth works concern prophecy as well, and were claimed to have been brought by an angel while Cyril was saying mass.

Contents:

1. f.1r-26v: Horoscopus / Rabanus Anglicus.
2. f.29r-98v: Commentum super predictionum Rabani Anglici.
3. f.100r-122v: Liber summorum pontificum incipit ab Innocentio quarto / Pseudo-Joachim of Fiore.
4. f.124r-168v: Commentarium florum pontificum / [Joachim de Fiore]
5. f.170r-238r: Oraculum / Cyril of Constantinople.
6. f.238v-242v: Revelatio / Cyril of Constantinople.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from incipit (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, i + 242 + ii; [1-242]; modern pencil foliation, upper right recto; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, for work 3 and work 5.
Script: Written in humanistic cursive script, in multiple hands.
Watermark: Briquet Oiseau 12251(1590) and 12210 (1591), Fleur de Lis 7319 (1592), and two unidentifiable marks: one depicts a crown and a bird inside a circle (likely late 16th century), the other depicts a lion rampant holding a fleur de lis, comparable to Briquet Lion 10560 (1466).
Binding: Contemporary vellum with remains of leather closures on upper cover.
Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1600 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Latin note on flyleaf records that "Gregorius de Gregoriis" found this book during the war of Pope Urban VIII, in 1644, in a river near Cessola.
Sold by Benedetti, 1912.

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. 40 (Ms. Latin 174).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1149

Contributor:

Joachim, of Fiore, approximately 1132-1202.
Pseudo-Joachim, of Fiore
Cyril, Saint, of Constantinople, -approximately 1235.
Dandalus, Ylardensis, translator.

Contains:

Vaticinia de summis pontificibus.
Horoscopus.
Commentarium florum pontificem.
Oraculum.
Revelatio.

OCLC:

217257182