In honor of the visit of Pope Francis to Philadelphia this week, we are sharing a number of our Pope
In honor of the visit of Pope Francis to Philadelphia this week, we are sharing a number of our Pope-related items. Ms. Codex 85 contains a collection of papal letters and instruments dealing with the order of the Eremite Friars of St. Augustine (the Augustinians). Written in two parts (f. 1r-69v, 71r-125v) “ad usum fratris Joannis Angeli de Crema,” compiled by Antonius Melius. The collection begins with a bull of Pope Sixtus IV. Other popes whose bulls are quoted or referred to include Alexander IV, Boniface VIII, Clement VI, John XXII, Urban VI, Martin V, Eugene IV, Nicholas V, Pius II, Paul II, Innocent IV, Alexander VI, and Julius II. The documents quoted or cited are not necessarily arranged in the chronological order of the pontificates of the popes who issued them.The manuscript features some lovely illuminated initials and decorated, borders, with an especially striking illuminated border on folio 1r. Images shown above are a close-up of the Pope on fol. 1r, the whole of fol. 1r, fols. 56v-57r, fols. 64v-65r.See the rest of Ms. Codex 85 at Penn in Hand: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1551751 -- source link
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