Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus

Not to be confused with Prophecy of the Popes.

15th-century watercolor illustration in Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus

A series of manuscript prophecies concerning the Papacy, under the title of Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus, a Latin text which assembles portraits of popes and prophecies related to them,[1] circulated from the late thirteenth-early fourteenth century, with prophecies concerning popes from Pope Nicholas III onwards.

Title page of Vaticinia, sive Prophetiae / Vaticinii, overo Profetie (Prophecies or Foretellings). Venice: Hieronymum Porrum and Giovanni Battista Bertoni, 1589.
  1. ^ The texts and illustrations are so closely related they must have been conceived together.