Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Vaticinia de summis pontificibus
Italy, Lombardy, ca. 1465
MS M.272 fol. 12r

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Martin V, wearing triple-crowned papal tiara, raises right hand to breast, gathers garment in left hand, and looks down toward wolf departing to left before three heraldic banners, two collapsing. Folio numbered "XXV" at upper margin. Below text, motto of Pope Martin V, BONA GRATIA SIMONIA CESSABIT.