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

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Title:

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

Alternate Title:

Prophetiae

Language:

Latin

Extent:

ff. 3 + 107

Approximate Date:

[ca. 1300 - 1399]

Collection:

Parker Manuscripts

Table of contents:

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• 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:

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.