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Alternative title

[Untitled]

Type of resource

mixed material

Extent

ff. 176

Date created

[ca. 1388-1424]

Language

Latin, German

Material

Paper

Layout

double columns of 40 and 46 lines, two volumes

Height (mm)

290

Width (mm)

199

Collation

1(12) (+1) 2(12)-6(12) (4-12 torn out): more leaves torn out: 7 (two) | 8(12) 9(12) 10(10) 11(12) 12(10) 13(10) 14(12)-16(12) 17(10) 18(10).

Foliation

ff. i-iii + 1-12 (13 missing) + 14-93 + a (loose leaf) + 94-176 + iv

Provenance

Mary Pernham on f. 1v.

Additions

List of contents in the cover (f. iiv).

Binding

Stamped leather binding, bosses, one metal tag and one loop, label ·112·

Summary

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.

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

M.R. James Date

1424 and 1388

Downloadable James Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:fh542nc7942/MS_521.pdf

Superseded Interim Catalogue Record

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:cm883yb3934/521.pdf

Contains

• Johannes Tortsch of Leipzig, Onus mundi (compilation from Reuelationes of Birgitta of Sweden). 1r-43r

  James

  Liber qui intitulatur onus mundi .i. prophetia de malo pene superuenturo ipsi mundo. 1r-43r

  Author

  Johannes Tortsch of Leipzig

  Rubric

  (1r) Prologus Onus mundi

  Incipit

  (1r) Sapiencia que domini que aperuit os muti et asine rudibili animali humana verba formare tribuit

  Explicit

  (2r) in angustia sua mirifice confortanciam

  Note

  (2r) Cap. I

  Incipit

  (2r) Cristus filius loquitur ad sponsam suam nouam sanctam brigittam

  Note

  In three books: at end of liber I

  Rubric

  (20v) Explicit prima pars huius libelli que est de tribulacione futura anno domini mo quadringetesimo xxiiij. In die sancte braxedis

  Note

  Liber III ends

  Explicit

  (43v) et in futuro seculo maior fiat. Amen. Amen

• Richard of Saint-Victor OSA, De meditandis plagis quae circa finem mundi euenient. 43v-48r

  Author

  Richard of Saint-Victor OSA

  Rubric

  (43v) Richardus de Sancto Victore
  (43v) De nouissimis temporibus

  Note

  (P. L. CXCVI 201)

  Incipit

  (43v) Memento creatoris tui ... quantum ad litere superficiem

  Explicit

  (48r) peruersitate compescere

  Rubric

  (48r) Explicit liber de memoria creatoris Magistri Richardi de Sancto Victore Anno domini mo cccco xxiiij fferia 2a ante festum natiuitatem Marie

• Vitae Patrum (extracts). 48r-48v

  James

  Extract from Vitae Patrum (?). 48r-48v

  Rubric

  (48r) Sanctus quirio de nouissimis temporibus

  Incipit

  (48r) Sancti fratres in egipto congregati prophetauerunt

  Explicit

  (48v) feliciores atque probabiliores. hec ubi supra

  Note

  (48v) Reference to passages in NewTestament on the last times

• pseudo-Methodius, Revelations (abridged version). 48v-51r

  James

  PS.-Methodius. 48v-51r

  Author

  pseudo-Methodius

  Rubric

  (48v) Sequuntur aliqua de reuelacionibus Sancti Methodii, etc.

  Incipit

  (48v) Sciendum vobis est fratribus karissimi quoniam in principio deus creauit celum

  Explicit

  (51r) cum igne et zulphure sub uno (mo)mento

  Rubric

  (51r) Explicit Sanctus Methodius martyr Anno domini mo cccc xxvo in die Sancte Agathe virginis et martyris

• Synodal statutes of Bishop of Varmia (Östpreussen). 51r-52v

  Rubric

  (51r) Secuntur instituta synodalia Warmiensis episcopi

  Incipit

  (51r) Hynricus dei et apostolice sedis gratia Episcopus Warmiensis ... Cum de statu clericorum et ecclesiarum regimine

  Explicit

  (52v) prout iustum fuerit procedemus

  Rubric

  (52v) Expliunt hec. anno quo supra in die sancte dorothee virginis et martiris

  Note

  Leaves torn out, some of which had genealogical tables

• List of popes and historical events. 53r-54v

  Note

  (53r) A list of Popes, Boniface VIII to Martin II, and Emperors, Albert to Sigismund, with notes of historical events arranged in medallions. Several refer to St Brigitta
  ff. 53v-54v blank

• Glossed Hymnal. 55r-175r

  Rubric

  (55r) Glossa super Hymnos

  Incipit

  (55r) In lumine tuo uidebimus lumen .N. hanc proposicionem scribit propheta

  Note

  A list of the hymns glossed is in the cover (f. iiv)
  Conditor alme syderum (f. 55v) to Rerum deus tenax vigor (f. 174v)
  Ends

  Explicit

  (175r) assit nobis cum eterna vita quam concedat nobis deus qui uiuit et regnat in secula seculorum. Amen. Et in hoc terminatur liber iste

  Rubric

  (175r) Explicit iste liber sit scriptor crimine liber. Amen. Qui dare vult aliis non debet dicere vultis (?) W' vns nyet d' sy (?) uirheyt. Finito libro sit laus. Anno domini mo ccco lxxxviiio

• De signis pestilencie. 175v-175v

  Rubric

  (175v) De signis pestilencie

  Incipit

  (175v) Hic videndum est de signis pestilencie. pro quo sciendum quod de numero signorum pestilenciam signancia

  Note

  There are 10 signs: Conjugation of bad planets. Comets, etc. Long westerly or southerly winds, cloudy weather especially from middle of May to July. Cloudy and wet summer. Variation of temperature. Hot days and cold nights. Numbers of frogs, toads, mice, fleas. Animals come up from their holes in the ground. Birds leave their nests. Weather is unseasonable
  Ends

  Explicit

  (175v) Aliter pronosticans faciliter posset (or -es) errare

  Note

  (176r) In the 2nd cover: a hymn to St Katherine with a few musical notes

  Incipit

  (176r) Aue katherina martir et regina

  Explicit

  (176r) ut intremus tecum choris angelorum. Amen

Elbing

N. 23

Repository

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Location

MS 521

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