Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Vaticinia de summis pontificibus
Italy, Lombardy, ca. 1465
MS M.272 fol. 8v

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Gregory XII, inscribed DOMINUS ANGELUS CORARIUS DE VENETUS PATRIARCHA CONSTANTINOPOLITAN DEINDE GREGORIUS XII PAPA, wearing triple-crowned papal tiara surmounted by displayed eagle, sits with feet on cushion, flanked by male youth raising hands to his left hand and by unicorn resting its forepaws on his knee. Below text, motto of Pope Gregory XII, PENITENCIA VESTIGIA SIMONIS MAGI TENEBIT. Folio numbered "XVIII" at upper margin.