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Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 521

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  • MS 521
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  • 1388 - 1424
Language
  • Latin
  • German
Title
    • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 521: Johannes Tortsch of Leipzig, Onus mundi. Glossed Hymnal
    • Johannes Tortsch of Leipzig, Onus mundi (compilation from Reuelationes of Birgitta of Sweden) || Liber qui intitulatur onus mundi .i. prophetia de malo pene superuenturo ipsi mundo
    • Richard of Saint-Victor OSA, De meditandis plagis quae circa finem mundi euenient
    • Vitae Patrum (extracts) || Extract from Vitae Patrum (?)
    • pseudo-Methodius, Revelations (abridged version) || PS.-Methodius
    • Synodal statutes of Bishop of Varmia (Östpreussen)
    • List of popes and historical events
    • Glossed Hymnal
    • De signis pestilencie
    • see more
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Description

  • 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 :


    1r-43r - Johannes Tortsch of Leipzig, Onus mundi (compilation from Reuelationes of Birgitta of Sweden) || Liber qui intitulatur onus mundi .i. prophetia de malo pene superuenturo ipsi mundo

    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


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

    rubric: (43v) Richardus de Sancto Victore

    rubric: (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


    48r-48v - Vitae Patrum (extracts) || Extract from Vitae Patrum (?)

    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


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


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

    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


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

    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

    Note: ff. 53v-54v blank


    55r-175r - Glossed Hymnal

    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)

    Note: Conditor alme syderum (f. 55v) to Rerum deus tenax vigor (f. 174v)

    Note: 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


    175v-175v - De signis pestilencie

    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

    Note: 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

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