Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 521: Johannes Tortsch of Leipzig, Onus mundi. Glossed Hymnal

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 521: Johannes Tortsch of Leipzig, Onus mundi. Glossed Hymnal
Alternate Title:
[Untitled]
Language:
Latin and German
Extent:
ff. 176
Dimensions:
290 Height (mm) and 199 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1388 - 1424]
Provenance:
Mary Pernham on f. 1v.
Table of contents:
  • Onus mundi (compilation from Reuelationes of Birgitta of Sweden)
  • De meditandis plagis quae circa finem mundi euenient
  • Vitae Patrum (extracts)
  • Revelations (abridged version)
  • Synodal statutes of Bishop of Varmia (Östpreussen)
  • List of popes and historical events
  • Glossed Hymnal
  • De signis pestilencie
Description:
CCCC MS 521, made in Germany, is part of the Elbing Collection brought back from the abandoned Brigittine monastery at what is now Elblag in Poland by Richard Pernham (1583?-1628) in the early 1620s and donated to Corpus Christi either by himself or by his wife Mary, whose name is inscribed in many books of the collection. Scribal colophons allow the two volumes that make of this codex to be precisely dated to 1424-5 and 1388 respectively. The first volume, of 1424-5, contains a number of tracts relating to prophecy, including the earliest version of the Onus mundi by Johannes Tortsch (c. 1400-45), and Richard of Saint-Victor OSA (d. 1173), De meditandis plagis quae circa finem mundi euenient. Also in this part are extracts from the Vitae Patrum (Vitas Patrum, a compilation of lives of early monk and hermit saints), the Revelations of the pseudo-Methodius, and at the end, of local significance, the synodal statutes of the Henry III, Bishop of Varmia (1373-1401), formerly in East Prussia but now in Poland (Warmia). The second, earlier, volume, contains a glossed hymnal, with a colophon dating its completion to 1388, and a tract on events portending the coming of plague.
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