Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Vaticinia de summis pontificibus
Italy, Lombardy, ca. 1465
MS M.272 fol. 5r

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Clement VI, DOMINUS PETRUS ROGERII QUI ET CLEMENS SEXTUS PAPA, wearing triple-crowned papal tiara, with wide band encircling hips, with right hand holds inverted processional cross, partly in jaws of dog (only head shown), and with left hand holds keys; serpent dangles from his left forearm. Below text, motto of Pope Clement VI, STOLAM SUAM IN SANGUINE AGNI DEALBABIT. Folio numbered "XI" at upper margin.