Prophetic text
Coniectura de novissimis diebus
Nicholas of Cusa
Nicholas of Cusa’s short Latin treatise on the last days, printed in the Paris edition of his works (1514). It reads the years of Christ’s life as jubilees of the Church and places the Church’s resurrection after 1700 and before 1734.
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Edition and location
Nicholas of Cusa, Coniectura de novissimis diebus, in Haec accurata recognitio trium voluminum operum clariss. P. Nicolai Cusae card. (Paris: in aedibus Ascensianis [Josse Bade], 1514), the leaves headed “Coniectura.” and “De novissimis diebus. Fo. II.” (Internet Archive ARes38417, Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla copy, leaves n161–n162), from “Hoc solum absque temerario iudicio” to “omnibus ignotus.” Abbreviations expanded (absq; absque, ꝙ quod, ī in, Christian⁹ Christianus, macrons for m and n); u/v and i/j usage, æ and ę, capitals, virgules (/) and punctuation as printed; spacing normalized. Transcribed from the Internet Archive page images.
Leaves headed “Coniectura.” and “De novissimis diebus. Fo. II.”