Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 399: Julian of Toledo, Prognosticon futuri saeculi

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Summary: CCCC MS 399 is a copy of the Prognosticon futuri saeculi by Julian of Toledo (c. 642-90) written in northern France probably in the first two thirds of the ninth century. It has some marginal 'tironian notae' - the form of shorthand devised by Cicero's secretary Tiro and revived in the Carolingian period. It seems to have come to England before the end of the tenth century, where some very minor alterations were made to the text. In the twelfth century a decorated opening title page was added. The manuscript was used by Matthew Parker or one of his secretaries, who underlined some significant phrases in red crayon.
Contents: Prognosticon futuri saeculi

Description

Alternative title	Iulianus Toletanus
Type of resource	mixed material
Extent	ff. 1 + 140
Date created	[ca. 800 CE - 899 CE]
Language	Latin
Material	Vellum
Layout	21 lines to a page
Height (mm)	217
Width (mm)	139
Collation	a(2), 1(8) (wants 1) 2(8)-17(8) \| 18(6) (5 canc.).
Writing	in a large upright rather heavy and coarse minuscule. The ornaments show some Celtic influence. The a is sometimes open at the top like u, sometimes of the ordinary a form
Foliation	ff. a-c + i-ii + 1-140 + d
Provenance	There are a few corrections of cent. xii, very possibly in English hands, but I have not found any notes or scribbles which give a clue to the monastic provenance.
Additions	On f. ir a title and note of contents in a hand which I take to be of cent. xvi early. It is like that of MS 395. 2. Note that 395 is Catalan., On f. iv an erasure of cent. xiii irrecoverable. iir blank
2 fo.	mortalium

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date	ix
Downloadable James Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:bc901wn3935/MS_399.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record	Title https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:hy336wp9705/399.pdf
Contains	Title Julian of Toledo, Prognosticon futuri saeculi. iiv-140v Author Julian of Toledo Note (iiv) occupied by a title in red and black capitals of cent. xii. Initial in red and green Rubric (iiv) Incipit liber Pronosticorum futuri seculi /. Sanctissimo ac / pre ceteris familiarissimo michi domino / ydalio Barcilonensis / sedis episcopo Iulianus Toletane sedis Episcopus Note (P. L. XCVI 453) (1r) The original hand begins Incipit (1r) Diem illum clara ... a redemptori omnium exceptione conspicuum quo presente anno pariter in urbe regia positi Note (1r) Initial in black with interlaced pattern left in white; contains a very rude figure of a nimbed man holding a book in each hand, a tree on R. Explicit (6v) debeat publicari sententiam Rubric (6v) Oratio Incipit (6v) Desertum idumeae caecus et morbidus Note Initial in black and red Explicit (8v) pleniori rerum auidentia contueri Rubric (8v) Incipiunt capitula libri primi Note (capitals, monogrammatized) Rubric (8v) De origine mortis humanoe Note Initial with plaited work in the stem Rubric (10v) Incipit liber de origine mortis humane Note (capitals) Incipit (10v) Quomodo mors primum subintrauerit in mundum. Peccato primi hominis actum Rubric (36v) Incipiunt capitula libri secundi de animabus defuntorum quo modo habeant ante ultimam corporum resurrectionem Note (capitals) Rubric (40r) Incipit liber secundus de animabus Note (capitals, red and black) Rubric (81v) Incipiunt capitula libri tercii de ultima corporum resurreccione Note (capitals: rather an elaborate initial in red; not of Celtic pattern) Rubric (86v) Incipit liber de ultima corporum resurrecione feliciter amen Note (capitals: less elaborate initial) Incipit (86v) Quod tempus et diem iudicii Note (86v) Initial with something of Celtic flavour From f. 102r to f. 115r the ink is paler and the hand seems different On f. 115v the former aspect is resumed (135v) The old hand ends imperfectly in capitulum lvi Explicit (135v) Quod tamen utrum in reprobis habeatur est fortasse ambiguum quia iuxta Note ff. 136r to end are a supply in a good clear hand of cent. xii: ending Explicit (139r) uenire ad regnum cuius nullus est finis Rubric (139r) Explicit Note ff. 139v-140r are blank (f. 140v pasted over)
TJames	104
Stanley	I. 14
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/wr832wy7248
Location	MS 399
Repository	UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

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