Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 399: Julian of Toledo, Prognosticon futuri saeculi
Iulianus Toletanus
mixed material
ff. 1 + 140
Vellum
21 lines to a page
217
139
a(2), 1(8) (wants 1) 2(8)-17(8) | 18(6) (5 canc.).
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
ff. a-c + i-ii + 1-140 + d
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.
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
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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.
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MS 399
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Julian of Toledo, Prognosticon futuri saeculi
iiv-140v
Julian of Toledo
author
(iiv) occupied by a title in red and black capitals of cent. xii. Initial in red and green
(iiv) Incipit liber Pronosticorum futuri seculi /. Sanctissimo ac / pre ceteris familiarissimo michi domino / ydalio Barcilonensis / sedis episcopo Iulianus Toletane sedis Episcopus
(P. L. XCVI 453)
(1r) The original hand begins
(1r) Diem illum clara ... a redemptori omnium exceptione conspicuum quo presente anno pariter in urbe regia positi
(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.
(6v) debeat publicari sententiam
(6v) Oratio
(6v) Desertum idumeae caecus et morbidus
Initial in black and red
(8v) pleniori rerum auidentia contueri
(8v) Incipiunt capitula libri primi
(capitals, monogrammatized)
(8v) De origine mortis humanoe
Initial with plaited work in the stem
(10v) Incipit liber de origine mortis humane
(capitals)
(10v) Quomodo mors primum subintrauerit in mundum. Peccato primi hominis actum
(36v) Incipiunt capitula libri secundi de animabus defuntorum quo modo habeant ante ultimam corporum resurrectionem
(capitals)
(40r) Incipit liber secundus de animabus
(capitals, red and black)
(81v) Incipiunt capitula libri tercii de ultima corporum resurreccione
(capitals: rather an elaborate initial in red; not of Celtic pattern)
(86v) Incipit liber de ultima corporum resurrecione feliciter amen
(capitals: less elaborate initial)
(86v) Quod tempus et diem iudicii
(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
(135v) Quod tamen utrum in reprobis habeatur est fortasse ambiguum quia iuxta
ff. 136r to end are a supply in a good clear hand of cent. xii: ending
(139r) uenire ad regnum cuius nullus est finis
(139r) Explicit
ff. 139v-140r are blank (f. 140v pasted over)
Parker Manuscripts
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