Shelfmark
MS 209
Author
Ambrose Saint, Bishop of Milan
Uniform title
[De bono mortis]
Title
Ambrosius, De bono mortis (fragm.). manuscript
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, between ca. 1125 and ca. 1175.
Physical description
1 volume (4 leaves) : parchment.
Note
Fragments of a mid-12th century copy of St Ambrose, De bono mortis; two leaves bound as MS 209, and two leaves bound as part of a volume of Fragmenta, MS 220, no II (q.v.).
Note
The two leaves bound as MS 209 contain the text from "a sanctis suis" to "Melius que mouent"; the two leaves in MS 220 contain the text from "reamur illum debitum" to "infideles sunt", bound in the wrong order.
Note
See Ker as cited below for references to the texts in Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum.
Note
The written space is complete on one leaf, 195 x 103 mm.
Note
30 long lines.
Note
Pencil ruling.
Note
"A" and "R" in the margins are contemporary "nota bene" signs.
Note
The two leaves bound as MS 209 were formerly pastedowns in a volume containing Carlo Sigorio, De dialogo, printed by G. Ziletti in Venice, 1562 and two other works printed in Venice and Florence in the 1560s, bound in Oxford, perhaps by Christopher Cavey, ca. 1570 (qq.v., Eton College Library Gg.4.14).
Note
The two leaves bound in MS 220 were formerly pastedowns in a copy of Cicero, Tusculanorum quaestionum libri V, printed by J. de Roigny in Paris, 1549, bound in Oxford, perhaps by Christopher Cavey, ca. 1570 (q.v., Eton College Library Ff.5.12).
Note
For the former binder, see N. R. Ker, Pastedowns in Oxford bindings, nos. 1375, 1377 and p. 216.
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Gg.4.14 and Ff.5.12.
Note
This catalogue record is based on the work of Neil Ker, as cited in the references below.
Citation/references note
Ker, N. R.. Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), p. 781
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 209 + 220, no. II.
Binding
The fragment in MS 209 was bound by Wilson & Co.
Subject
Ambrose Saint, Bishop of Milan Manuscripts.
Subject
Manuscript fragments.
Added entry--place
England.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50159