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Harley MS 1340
- Record Id:
- 040-002047169
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002047169
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000652.0x00034e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1340
- Title:
- Vaticinia de Pontificibus attributed to Joachim of Fiore
- Scope & Content:
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Vaticinia de Pontificibus attributed to Joachim of Fiore, incipit: 'Ascende calve ne amplius de calveris'. The manuscript is composed of 15 leaves featuring portraits of popes and other images paired with relevant prophecies. Almost each image is accompanied by an inscription in gold identifying the person depicted. The manuscript was made between 1431, the date of the accession of pope Eugene IV (mentioned in one of the inscriptions), and c 1447, his death and the accession of Nicholas V. It is uncertain whether the last papal portrait shows Nicolas V (f. 13r), as it is not identified by an inscription.
Decoration:
30 three-quarter page miniatures in colours and gold with full borders, attributed to the Master of San Miniato by Berenson (1950), and to the Circle of Benozzo Gozzoli by Popham and Pouncey (1950). 30 initials in colours and gold with foliate extensions. Captions in gold. Headings in red.
The miniatures represent:
f. 1r, Nicholas III ('Dominus Johannes de Ursinis deinde Nicholaus tertius papa).
f. 1v, Martin IV ('Dominus Symon canonicus turronensis deinde Martinus papa IIII).
f. 2r, Honorius IV ('Dominus Jacobus de Sabellis. Qui et Honorius papa Quartus).
f. 2v, Nicholas IV ('Dominus Jeronimus de Esculo ordinis minorum. Qui et Nicholaus papa quartus').
f. 3r, Celestin V ('Dominus frater Petrus de Morrono dictus Celestinus quintus papa').
f. 3v, Boniface VIII ('Dominus Benedictus Gaictanus. Qui et Bonifatius VIII papa').
f. 4r, Benedict XI ('Dominus frater Nicholaus prdinis predicatorum de Trivisio deinde Benedictus undecimus papa').
f. 4v, Clemens IV ('Dominus Bertrandus Quasco. Qui et Clemens papa quartus').
f. 5r, John XXII ('Dominus Jacobus de Caturco(?) Qui et Johannes XXII papa').
f. 5v, Benedict XII ('Dominus Jacobus de Furno. Qui et Benedictus XII papa).
f. 6r, Clemens VI ('Dominus Petrus Rogerii. Qui et Clemens sextus papa').
f. 6v, Innocent VI ('Dominus Stephanus deinde Innocentius sextus papa').
f. 7r, Urban V ('Dominus Guilielmus et deinde Urbanus papa quintus').
f. 7v, Gregory XI ('Dominus Petrus Bellifortis deinde Gregorius XI papa').
f. 8r, Urban VI as a satanic beast ('Dominus Bartholomeus archiepiscopus barensis deinde Urbanus VI papa cuius tempore et scisma in ecclesia dei qua factus fuit alius papa in seculi').
f. 8v, Boniface IX ('Dominus Bonifatius nonus papa').
f. 9r, Innocent VII ('Dominus Cosmatus de Meglioranus de Salmone deinde Innocentius VII papa creatus in urbe XVII octobris 1404').
f. 9v, Gregory XII ('Dominus Angelus Corarius de Venetiis patriarcha Constantinopolitanis deinde Gregorius XII...).
f. 10r, Alexander V ('Dominus Petrus de Candia cardinalis XII apostolorum deinde Alexander V papa. Creatus Pisiis peer generale collegium die xvi Junii 1409').
f. 10v, John XXIII ('Dominus Baldaisar Cossa de Neapoli (...) deinde Johannes XXIII. Creatus Bononie die XVI Mai 1410').
f. 11r, Martin V ('Dominus Oddo de Columna Romanus deinde Martinus papa quintus creatus Constantie per generale collegium').
f. 11v, Eugene IV ('Dominus Gabriel Condolmario de Venetiis deinde Eugenius papa quartus creatus in Urbe die septimo Martii 1431').
f. 12r, A fortified city with two groups of soldiers guarding its walls.
f. 12v, A fortified city with four hands appearing in the sky.
f. 13r, A pope (without identifying inscription).
f. 13v, A boy approaching a naked man.
f. 14r, A young saint holding a pope's tiara.
f. 14v, An angel crowning a pope.
f. 15r, A pope and two angels.
f. 15v, A pope holding his tiara and a book.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002047169", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 1340: Vaticinia de Pontificibus attributed to Joachim of Fiore" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002047169 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 1340 : Vaticinia de Pontificibus attributed to Joachim of Fiore - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[1340]/040-002047169
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_1340 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1431
- End Date:
- 1452
- Date Range:
- 1431-c 1447
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 285 x 195 mm (text space: 45 x 165 mm).
Foliation: ff. 1* + 15 (+ 15 unfoliated flyleaves: 6 paper and 1 parchment leaves at the beginning, and 3 parchment and 5 paper leaves at the end; paper folios interleaved between each parchment folio; f. 1* is a parchment leaf).
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Post-1600 binding of red leather with gold tooling; green leather inside covers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy (Florence).
Provenance:
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), Duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Administrative Context:
- Italy (Florence).
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript, see Digitised Manuscripts http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum, 4 vols (London, 1808-12), II (1808), no. 1340.
Walter de Gray Birch and Henry Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts (London: Bagster and Sons, 1879), p. 14.
Herbert Grundmann, 'Die Papstprophetien des Mittelalters', Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, 19 (1929), p. 132 n. 2.
Bernard Berenson, 'Un codice illustrato dal Maestro di S. Miniato', Revista d'Arte, 26 (1950), 95-101.
Arthur E. Popham and Philip Pouncey, Italian Drawings In the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, 2 vols (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1950), I, pp. 2-3.
Bernard Berenson, 'Miniatures probably by the Master of the San Miniato Altarpiece', in Beiträge für Georg Swarzenski, ed. by Oswald Goetz (Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1951), pp. 96-102.
Charles H. Talbot, ‘A List of Cistercian Manuscripts in Great Britain’, Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought and Religion, 8 (1952), 402-18 (p. 412).
Marjorie Reeves, The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages: A Study in Joachimism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969), p. 406.
Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts: Treasure from the British Library, ed. by Thomas Kren (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1983), p. 94 n. 2.
John N. King, Tudor Royal Iconography: Literature and Art in an Age of Religious Crisis (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989), pl. 55.
Gigetta Dalli Rigoli and Gemma Landolfi, ‘Un testo profetico medievale in un codice quattrocentesco: I Vaticinia Pontificum e il MS. Harley 1340 della British Library’, in Il Codice miniato: rapporti tra codice, testo e figurazione. Atti del III Congresso di Storia della Miniatura con una nota sul restauro dei codici della Biblioteca Comunale e dell'Academia Etrusca espositi in occasione del Convegno, Storia della miniatura, studi e documenti, 7, ed. by Melania Ceccanti and Maria Cristina Castelli (Florence: Olschki, 1992), pp. 405-23.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (London: British Library, 1997), no. 150.
Benozzo Gozzoli, Allievo a Roma, Maestro in Umbria, ed. by Bruno Toscano e Giovanna Capitelli (Milan: Silvano, 2002), pp. 142-45, no. 1; 170-73, no. 10.
Francesca Pasut, 'Benozzo di Lese di Sandro detto Benozzo Gozzoli', in Dizionario biografico dei miniatori italiani: Secoli IX-XVI, ed. by Milvia Bollati (Milan: Sylvestre Bonnard, 2004), pp.88-90 (p. 89).
Hélène Millet, Les successeurs du pape aux ours: histoire d'un livre prophétique médiéval illustré (Vaticinia de summis pontificibus) (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004), as 'H1', figs. 13, 29, 46, 57.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)