Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Vaticinia sive prophetiae et imagines summorum pontificum
Italy, ca. 1390
MS M.402 fol. 8r

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Gregory XI, wearing triple crowned papal tiara with infulae, stands holding staff with right hand. Behind him, soldier, wearing helmet, raises sword with right hand, and holds shield with left hand. Between the two men are two swords and behind the soldier are three spears.
Figures enclosed in square frame of interlace.