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Detailed record for Harley 1340
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| Author |
Attributed to Joachim of Fiore |
| Title |
Vaticinia de Pontificibus |
| Origin |
Italy, Central (Florence) |
| Date |
2nd quarter of the 15th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Artists |
Attributed to the Master of San Miniato (Berenson 1950)
Attributed to the Circle of Benozzo Gozzoli (Popham and Pouncey 1950) |
| Decoration |
30 three-quarter page miniatures in colours and gold with full borders. 30 initials in colours and gold with foliate extensions. Captions in gold. Headings in red. |
| Dimensions in mm |
285 x 195 (45 x 165) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 1* + 15 (+ 5 unfoliated paper + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning + paper folios interleaved between each parchment folio + 3 unfoliated parchment and 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Red leather with gold tooling; green leather inside covers. |
| 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. |
| Notes |
f. [vi] is a paper flyleaf marked as f. 1. |
| Select bibliography |
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: [n. pub.], 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.
A.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 edited by Oswald Goetz (Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1951), pp. 96-102.
C. 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), 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), 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. |
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f. 1
Pope Nicholas III |
f. 1v
Pope Martin IV |
f. 2
Pope Honorius IV |
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f. 2v
Nicholas IV of Ascoli |
f. 3
Pope Celestine V |
f. 3v
Pope Boniface VIII |
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f. 4
Pope Benedict XI |
f. 5
Pope John XXII |
f. 5v
Pope Benedict XII |
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f. 6
Pope Clement VI |
f. 6v
Pope Innocent VI |
f. 7
Pope Urban V |
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f. 7
Peacock |
f. 7v
Pope Gregory XI |
f. 8
Human-headed dragon |
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f. 8v
Pope Boniface IX |
f. 9
Pope Innocent VII |
f. 9v
Pope Gregory XII |
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f. 10
Three pillars |
f. 10v
Pope John XXII |
f. 11
Pope Martin V |
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f. 11v
Pope Eugenius IV |
f. 11v
Bear suckling two cubs |
f. 12
City of Rome |
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f. 12
City of Rome |
f. 12v
City of Rome |
f. 13
Pope Nicholas V |
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f. 13v
A youth and an elderly man |
f. 14
Saint holding a papal tiara |
f. 14v
Angel crowning a pope |
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f. 15
Pope flanked by angels |
f. 15v
Pope holding a tiara |
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