The esoteric tradition of Tarot gives an interesting contribution about the contact between the Vaticinia and the codex Vitt. Em. 307 in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Rome. This manuscript proves better than others the persistence of prophetic iconography of the late ancient world, from early Middle Age, and during the whole Middle Age, untill the 17th century. In the library's catalogue the prophecies in the codex are ascribed to Nostradamus as written on f. 1r even if it seems like a following interpolation. The attribution to Joachim of Flore is fixed in the dedication to cardinal Barberini (f. 83r), dated September 6, 1629 and composed by one Cinus Beroaldus in the Cistercian library of Corazzo, and in the reference to another ancient codex illustrated by “Anito Efesio prince of painters”, which would have executed the copy in 1343 (f. 82r) on the order of the Cistercian monk Thomas Gruidius of Saint John. The manuscript collects one hundred prophetic texts. Thirty images of the Vaticinia de summis pontificibus and others illustrations of Telesphorus of Cosenza's Libellus and Vaticinia of ms. Angelicano 1146 and ms. Chigiano A V 152, are followed by several images of popes with animals, others persons and symbolic elements, some of these coming from the esoteric tradition of Tarots: every scene is painted with watercolour-ink without texts. The illustrations of the codex, in spite of their archaism, give a deep impression with theirs bright colors and the lack of text shows that they lost the original polemic function and changed into complex images offered to the bibliophiles' curiosity. They prove, maybe, that this iconographic subject had a surprising effect in the 17th century too.