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A series of manuscript prophecies concerning the

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, under the title of ''Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus'', a Latin text which assembles portraits of popes and prophecies related to them, circulated from the late thirteenth-early fourteenth century, with prophecies concerning popes from

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onwards.

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The series of some thirty prophecies, based on Greek prototypes, was "most probably conceived in order to influence one of the ongoing papal elections,"Schleich ref. written in opposition to the

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and their candidates. The mystical series of prophecies, known from their '' incipit'' as the ''Genus nequam'' prophecies (''"the origin of evil"''), are derived from the Byzantine Leo Oracles, a series of twelfth-century Byzantine prophecies that foretell a savior-emperor destined to restore unity to the Christian Empire. Their poems and tempera illuminations mix fantasy, the occult, and chronicle in a chronology of the popes. Each prophecy consists of four elements, an enigmatic

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atic picture, a motto, and an attribution to a pope. The series was augmented in the fourteenth century with further prophecies, with the '' incipit'' ''Ascende calve'' (''"arise, bald one"''), written in imitative continuation of the earlier set, but with more overtly propagandist aims. By the time of the Council of Constance (1414–18), both series were united as the ''Vaticinia de summis pontificibus'' and misattributed to the Calabrian mystic

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, thus credited to a ''pseudo-Joachim.'' There are some fifty manuscripts of this fuller collection. The prophecies received numerous printed editions.

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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. *Reeves, Marjorie. ''Joachim of Fiore and the Prophetic Future'',

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, SPCK, 1976. *Reeves, Marjorie. ''Joachim of Fiore and the Prophetic Future'' (Paperback).

, Sutton, 1999. *Reeves, Marjorie. ''The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages: A Study in Joachimism'',

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, 1969. . *Reeves, Marjorie, ''Some Popular Prophecies from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries,'' Studies in Church History 8 (1971): 107–34.

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Stiftsbibliothek Kremsmünster: Vaticinia Pontificum

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(University of Zurich) Frank Schleich, "Ascende calve: the later series of the medieval pope prophecies"
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* There was a highly sold version of ''Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus'', printed in black and white] in 1589 in

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