Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 404: Miscellany of Prophecy Texts compiled by Henry of Kirkstead OSB

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Summary
CCCC MS 404, dating in part to the early fourteenth century, and in part to c. 1349-89, is a miscellany of prophecy texts brought together by Henry of Kirkstead OSB (c. 1314-after 1378), monk and later prior of the abbey of Bury St Edmunds; he was known formerly as Boston of Bury. The prophecies include those of the Tiburtine Sibyl, Hildegard of Bingen OSB (1098-1179), tracts on the Antichrist, and prophecies relating to the popes and the English kings. The prophecies of the popes, in the early fourteenth-century section, are illustrated by drawings. This text must postdate 1304-5. Henry was responsible for the books of the abbey and drew up an inventory of them.
Contents
Prophetia Sibyllae Tiburtinae -- De initio et fine saeculi -- Tractatus de Antichristo -- Tractatus de duratione mundi -- Prophecy texts -- Reuelacio mirabilis super statu totius ecclesiae -- De seminibus scripturarum -- De Antichristo et fine mundi -- Oraculum angelicum -- Prophetiae de papis (Vaticinia de papis) -- Prophecies on the English Kings, on Antichrist, and other texts

Description

Alternative title Prophetiae
Type of resource mixed material
Extent ff. 3 + 107
Date created [ca. 1300 - 1399]
Language Latin
Material Vellum
Layout mostly 44 lines to a page
Height (mm) 213
Width (mm) 135
Collation 3 flyleaves, 1(8) 2(10) 3(8) 4(12) (+1) 5(4) 6(12)-9(12) (wants 9-12) | 10(8) | 11(6) (+1) 12 (five).
Writing but in several hands
Foliation ff. a-b + i-iii + 1-6 + 6a + 7-107 + c
Provenance From Bury St Edmunds. On f. iiiv in Boston's (?) hand: Quaternus monachorum Sancti Edmundi quem scripsit pro maiori parte ffrater Henricus de Kirkestede in quo subscripta continentur videlicet (list follows). Also on f. 1r at top in red: Liber sancti edmundi, and the pressmark in black ˙P˙ 163. P no doubt stands for Prophetiae.
Additions The first two flyleaves are portions of leaves of a law-book of cent. xii-xiii, in double columns of 34 lines.

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date xiv (and xiii?)
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
Contains
TJames 71
Stanley G. 5
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/jy663fr8353
Location MS 404
Repository UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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