Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus
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A series of manuscript prophecies concerning the
Introduction
The series of some thirty prophecies, based on Greek prototypes, was "most probably conceived in order to influence one of the ongoing papal elections,"[2] written in opposition to the Orsini and their candidates.
The mystical series of prophecies, known from their
The series was augmented in the fourteenth century with further prophecies, with the
The prophecies received numerous printed editions.
See also
Notes
References
- Fleming, Martha H. The Late Medieval Pope Prophecies: The Genus nequam Group (Series "Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies', 204), (Tempe: universidad de Arizona) 1999.
- Lerner, Robert E. "On the Origins of the Earliest Latin Pope Prophecies: A Reconsideration". Fälschungen im Mittelalter, Vol. 5, pp. 611–635. Schriften der Monumenta Germaniae Historica, 33. Hannover, 1988.
- Reeves, Marjorie. Joachim of Fiore and the Prophetic Future, London, SPCK, 1976.
- Reeves, Marjorie. Joachim of Fiore and the Prophetic Future (Paperback). London, Sutton, 1999.
- Reeves, Marjorie. The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages: A Study in Joachimism, ISBN 0-19-827030-5.
- Reeves, Marjorie, Some Popular Prophecies from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries, Studies in Church History 8 (1971): 107–34.
External links
- Stiftsbibliothek Kremsmünster: Vaticinia Pontificum Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
- Poets, Saints, and Visionaries of the Great Schism: 1378-1417 by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinsk
- (University of Zurich) Frank Schleich, "Ascende calve: the later series of the medieval pope prophecies"[permanent dead link]
- Images taken from several versions of V.d.S.P. located in libraries around the world
- There was a highly sold version of Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus, printed in black and white] in 1589 in Venice, with double Italian/Latin texts. A scanned copy of this is available at Internet Archive. There is a copy in the University of London library
