Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

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

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Urban V, wearing triple crowned papal tiara, is seated on bench, holding with right hand stalk of flowers, also held by angel, and holding with left hand keys with knotted cord, also held by angel. At upper right rays descend from hand emerging from arc of Heaven. Peacock stands at lower left, looking up toward Urban V.
Figures enclosed in square frame of interlace.