Cotton MS Cleopatra B I, ff 177-184

ff. 179r-182v: Fragment of the Meditationes Vitae Christi attributed to Bonaventure: 'Explicit liber aureus vite passionis resurrectionis et ascencionis domni nostril ihesu Christi secundum domini Boneventuram curie Romane Cardinalem'.

ff. 182v-183r: Prophecy of Thomas of Canterbury: a vision in which the Virgin Mary gives him a vial with oil for the coronation of English kings during his exile in France, 'Quando ego Thomas Cantuariensis archiepiscopus exul ab Anglia' etc.

f. 182v: Prophecies about a fire consuming the world in 1500 and the king of England in 1334 claimed to have been found on a black stone found in the church of St Vincent of Saragossa in Valencia (Valencia Cathedral?) in 1394. The stone is said to have been examined by a 'frater Antonius' in the presence of the duke of Lancaster.

ff. 181r-181v: Three notes about the cycle of the moon, 'Si qua hora luna a sole accenditur'.

f. 181v: Questions and answers about reparable and irreparable sins relating to fallen angels, 'Quaeriter. si omnes anguli qui ceciderunt eque sicut Lucifer pectaverunt qui dixit. Ponam sedem medum etcaetera . vel ascendam in celum et ero filius altissimo'.

ff. 181v-184r: Peter Ceffons of Clairvaux (fl. c. 1350), Epistola Luciferi ad Cleros, here entitled 'Epistola luciferi missa ad papam et prelatos'; the letter ends with a note (f. 196r) that the author received it during the reign of King Richard II, when Thomas Hyndeman was chancellor of the University of Oxford (1394–1395 and 1399–1400).

Decoration:

Small initials in red.