Sibyl Series of the Fifteenth Century

Robin Raybould (MA, LLM, Cambridge UK) is an independent scholar who specializes in Renaissance symbolic literature. His latest publication was a translation of and commentary on Giehlow's Hieroglyphenkunde, (Brill, 2015) which describes the reception of hieroglyphics in the Italian Renaissance.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction 1.Greek and Roman Origins2.The early Christian Era The Sibylline Oracles LactantiusSt. AugustineThe Influence of Virgil3.The Middle Ages The Encyclopaedic textsThe Apocalyptic textsThe Pisano Sibyls4.The Sibyls at the beginning of the Fifteenth Century 5.The Cortina Sibyls6.The Orsini Sibyls The Tradition of Wall Painting in the Palaces of ItalyThe New Canon of Twelve Sibyls The Camera Paramenti 7. The Manuscripts of the Orsini series The Early Manuscripts: Zwölf Sibyllen Weissagung Other early Manuscripts8. The Theme, Order and Attributes of the Fifteenth CenturySibyl Series 9. The Sibyl Series derived from the Orsini FrescosThe Ferrara Sibyls Feo Belcari and the RappresentazioneBaccio BaldiniDe BarberisThe Nuremberg ChronicleOther Series10. The Oracula Sibyllina of St. Gall 11. The Sibyl Series derived from Lactantius The Tempio MalatestianoUlm Cathedral Siena CathedralThe Oxford Paintings12. ConclusionAppendix 1 Text and Origin of the Prophecies of the Orsini Sibyls Appendix 2 Pausanias: Description of Greece Chapter 10.12 Appendix 3 Clement of Alexandria: StromataAppendix 4 Lactantius: Divine Institutes; references to the sibylsAppendix 5 Table of the Order of the SibylsBibliographyIndex