Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 404

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Other shelfmark(s): none

Physical description: 213 × 135 mm., iii + 107 fols., 1 col.

Language: Latin

Date: ca. 1300–1399

Provenance: Bury St. Edmunds, compiled by Henry of Kirkestede, a Benedictine monk

Contents:

Tiburtine Sibyl (fols. 1r–3v)

Revelation of Matthew about the End Times (fol. 7r)

Additional contents:  Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius (fols. 4r–6v); Tractatus de duratione mundi (fols. 7v–8v); Hildegard of Bingen OSB, Prophecy texts (fols. 9r–38v); Reuelacio mirabilis super statu totius ecclesiae (fols. 39r–43r); pseudo-Joachim of Fiore, De seminibus scripturarum (fols. 43v–64v); De Antichristo et fine mundi (fols. 65r–67r); pseudo-Joachim of Fiore, Commentary on Cyril of Constantinople OCarm, Oraculum angelicum (fols. 67v–87v); pseudo-Joachim of Fiore, Prophetiae de papis (Vaticinia de papis) (fols. 88r–95v); Prophecies on the English Kings, on Antichrist, and other texts (fols. 96r–107v).

Catalogs:

James, M.R. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College Cambridge. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1911 (vol. 2, pp. 269–77).

Rouse, Richard H. and Mary A. Rouese, eds. Henry of Kirkestede, Catalogus de libris autenticis et apocrifis. London: British Library, 2004 (pp. lvii–lviii, lxxvii–lxxxii).

Entry created by Tony Burke, York University ([email protected]), 26 June 2018.