The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Pope Joan ( - fl. 858)
In medieval legend, a woman who reigned as pope for two years Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Joan References in Documents:Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) 13.
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Value appears by the Character given it by a Right Reverend
Author, who all will allow to be a most competent Judge, and
who is pleased to mention it, with others of great Value re
ferr'd to byArchbishop , Mr. , ( . Note, Tho'
it ends many Years before the Reformation (
the Catalogue of Popes is inserted
Hand as the rest of the Book.
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Value appears by the Character given it by a Right Reverend
Author, who all will allow to be a most competent Judge, and
who is pleased to mention it, with others of great Value re
ferr'd to by
Usher
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Bishop ofCarl
Hist. libr. I Vol. pag. 199
it ends many Years before the Reformation (
viz. 12
H. 6.) yet in
the Catalogue of Popes is inserted
, with the sameJohannes Papissa
Hand as the rest of the Book.
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)
Cronica fratris Martini Papæ Penitentiarii &
Capellani; it contains
the History of the Emperors from
Augustus to the Vacancy after Frederick
2dPopes to Honorious 4An.
Book is perfect till, pag. 191. where the History of Joan
probably
inserted, there being nothing defective in the whole
Book but that Leaf, and the other
that answers it. It belonged
to the Friars Minorits at Doncaster,
and was probably torn out
after the Reformation, against which they were so zealous,
that
the An.