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
Dimensions:
213 Height (mm) and 135 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1300 - 1399]
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.
Table of 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:
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.
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