Commentary
Tractatus de tempore adventus Antichristi
Arnold of Villanova
Treatise of 1297 (with a part of 1300) by the physician Arnold of Villanova on the time of Antichrist’s coming, condemned by Paris theologians. Excerpts printed by Heinrich Finke in 1902 place Antichrist about the seventy-eighth year of the fourteenth century.
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Edition and location
Arnold of Villanova, Tractatus de tempore adventus Antichristi (first part 1297), excerpts printed from Cod. Vat. lat. 3824, fol. 50 ff., in Heinrich Finke, Aus den Tagen Bonifaz VIII.: Funde und Forschungen (Münster: Aschendorff, 1902), Quellen, pp. CXXXI–CXXXII (Internet Archive ausdentagenboni00finkgoog, leaves n450–n451). Transcribed from the page images. Finke’s spelling of the manuscript (abhominatio, terre illus, videlicat) retained; his errata (p. CCXXXII) correct “videlicat” to videlicet, and his footnote says “septuagesimum octavum” stands on a correction in the manuscript. Finke’s ellipses retained; his footnote markers omitted; German-style quotation marks as printed. Followed in the note by a new AI-assisted English translation (Rainbow Watch, 2026), labelled as such.
Finke ed. pp. CXXXI–CXXXII