Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Vaticinia sive prophetiae et imagines summorum pontificum
Italy, ca. 1390
MS M.402 fol. 4v

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Benedict XI, wearing triple crowned papal tiara, raising right hand, holding book in left hand, stands facing tree around which is entwined amphisbaena. Behind Benedict is crow (?).
Figures enclosed in medallion of interlace within frame decorated with foliate ornament.