The Sibyl and Her Scribes: Manuscripts and Interpretation of the Latin Sibylla Tiburtina c. 1050–1500Routledge, 15.05.2017 - 280 Seiten The Sibylla Tiburtina is a Latin prophecy attributed to a prophetess from classical antiquity. It concludes with an account of the End of History, involving the coming of the Antichrist and his battle with a Last World Emperor. Approximately 100 manuscripts, written between the mid-11th and the 16th centuries, survive which testify to the Tiburtina's immense popularity in the medieval West; as such the Tiburtina is a key text for understanding medieval apocalypticism and occupies an important place in the intellectual history of the Middle Ages. However, studies of the manuscripts and the history of the text have been largely neglected, in comparison with other similar works, so little is currently known about who copied and read the prophecy. Dr Holdenried's research fills this gap. This study is based on an examination of all surviving manuscripts and includes an analysis of the textual material which accompanies the Tiburtina, a survey of titles and annotations, as well as research on variant texts (including several hitherto unknown). Modern historiography regards the Tiburtina solely as a vehicle for expressing contemporary political concerns triggered by crises thought to herald the End of the World. This book provides a much more varied picture and offers a new approach to the Tiburtina by placing it, for the first time, in the context of medieval traditions which saw Sibylline prophecy as independent, non-Christian evidence of Christ's life and as confirmation of His divinity. As is shown, these traditions had a major impact on the reception of the Tiburtina. The book concludes with a repertory of the manuscripts, together with brief outlines of individual textual traditions as represented in groups of manuscripts, which will constitute a valuable reference source for other scholars. |
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Repositories of Medieval Approaches to the Tiburtina | |
The Sibyl as Prophetess of Christ | |
Associated Content | |
Salvation Judgement and the Tiburtina | |
The Evidence of the Margins | |
The Evidence of Textual Variations | |
Matthew Paris Augustine and the Tiburtina | |
Conclusion | |
Excluded Manuscripts | |
Sibylline Prophecy in De Civitate Dei and Vos inquam | |
Index of Manuscripts Cited | |
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acrostic Alexander ANNOTATED Antichrist associated content Augustine Augustine's Bedan recension Bibliotheca Bibliothèque BL Cotton Vespasian BL Royal Cambridge Catalogue Chapter christological Chronica Majora Civitate codex compilation concerning Conspectus of Extant copies Cumaean Sibyl edition eius erit Ernst Sackur erunt Erythraean Sibyl eschatological Etymologiae evidence Extant Manuscripts fols Frederick I Barbarossa German Empire glosses Greek Henry Henry VI Hrabanus Maurus included initials inquam interpolated Last Emperor prophecy Latin Library liturgy material Matthew McGinn medieval medieval readers Middle Ages ms-variant of Bedan Newberry Sibyl nomine Ottonian pagan Pantheon Paris BN political prophecy prologue prophetic reference regnabit regnal list rex Salicus Rochester Cathedral Rochester Cathedral Priory rubric s.XII S.XIV S.XV Sackur Sackur's text scholars scribe Sibille Sibylla Tiburtina Sibylline Gospel Sibylline prophecy Sibylline Tradition surget surget rex Table TEXT FAMILY Tiburtina manuscripts Tiburtine Sibyl Tunc twelfth century Verhelst version II cf version IV Vespasian Vespasian B XXV Zwettl