Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Vaticinia sive prophetiae et imagines summorum pontificum
Italy, ca. 1390
MS M.402 fol. 7r

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Innocent VI, wearing triple crowned papal tiara, holding knife in raised right hand and keys tied with cord in raised left hand, stands looking down toward crown at his feet. At right wolf stands on hind legs, resting front paws on crutch, its mouth open below the keys.
Figure enclosed in square frame decorated with geometric and foliate ornament.