Mirabilis liber qui prophetias Reuelationesque demonstrat. 1524 (1523). Rome (Lyon). 8:o.

Description

Mirabilis liber qui prophetias revelationesque, necnon res mirandas, preteritas, presentes et futuras, aperte demonstrat.

The Mirabilis liber is a collection of revelations and prophecies, spread during the Middle Ages and printed first in Paris in 1522 and twice in 1523 as well as six times on uncertain dates. This edition was published in 1523 in Lyon, but purports to have been printed in 1524, probably because of a certain plantery alignment, and in Rome, likely since the printer believed that revelations were more typical for Italy. The work contains two visions ascribed to Birgitta, taken from Prognosticatio (Strasbourg 1488, J. Lichtenberger), alongside selections from various writers, such as Joachim of Fiore, Catherine of Siena and Savanarola. Hildegard of Bingen is also mentioned. The collection had some influence on the prophecies of Nostradamus.

One of the earlier undated editions is available online at the Austrian National Library webpage. Here the selected revelations are on pp. 44–45 (ch. III: ff. XVIIIv–XIXr) and pp. 64–65 (ch. XVIII: ff. XXVIIv–XXVIIIr).

Content
  • ch. III: Apocryphal revelation (Incipit "Sub aquila grandi que ignem fovebit in pectore conculcabitur ecclesia et vastabitur").

  • ch. XVIII: Apocryphal revelation (Incipit "Egredietur lilium ex agro occidentali: erit crescens in mile milia in terra virginali").

Current Print Locations
  • France
    • France, Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, 25135
  • United Kingdom
    • United Kingdom, London, British Library, 8610.a.20
Literature

Britnell, Jennifer & Derek Stubbs. 1986. The Mirabilis Liber: Its Compilation and Influence. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. 49, pp. 126–149.

Kociszewska, Ewa. 2013. Vaticinium de coniunctione Liliorum cum Aquila. The Prophecy from Prognosticatio... of Johann Lichtenberger and its Interpretation for Henri de Valois (1575). Odrodzenie i Reformacja w Polsce: Special Issue 2013, pp. 168–183.

Reeves, Marjorie. 1961. Joachimist Influences on the Idea of a Last World Emperor. Traditio 17, pp. 323–370.