Los Sermones de clade de las Homiliae Toletanae (CPL 1997): Fuentes, datación y autoría

Abstract

[EN] In this research, we will approach the study of a series of liturgical texts, created to spiritually prepare the faithful before the arrival of an outbreak of inguinal plague in Visigothic Spain. They are part of an anonymous collection of 92 sermons, dated around the seventh century, which receives the name of Homiliae Toletanae (CPL 1997). It is mostly preserved in the codex London, British Library, Add. 30853 (late eleventh century). The study of these six texts has allowed us to ascertain that Julian de Toledo’s Prognosticum futuri saeculi (dated around 688) is the most recent source used. As a matter of consequence, in all likelihood they were written at the end of the seventh century in Spain, coinciding with the outbreak of this disease in the years of the reign of Egica (687-702)