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• Résumé : 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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  Langue(s) des textes : latin, allemand

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Johannes Tortsch of Leipzig - author

  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

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Richard of Saint-Victor OSA - author

  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

  
  

  Intervenants :

  pseudo-Methodius - author

  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