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MS. Bodl. 762

Summary Catalogue no.: 2536

Physical Description

Composite: three parts

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 138

Good initials (partly mutilated)

History

Provenance and Acquisition

The contents of Part 1 are given in a 13th century hand on fol. ii verso

Ely, cathedral priory: pressmark ‘6.32’ (MLGB3).

In the 16th century, this volume and MS. Bodl. 839 were owned by the same person, as the tags on that manuscript show

Lambeth Palace, as evidence by a note made by Thomas James in The Queen's College Oxford, 62.E.6 (Opera Ambrosii, Paris, 1603) in 1612 (MLGB3).

MS. Bodl. 762 does not occur in any Bodleian list until c. 1655

MS. Bodl. 762 – Part 1

Contents

1. (fol. 1)
Ambrose, De Abraham
Rubric: Liber sancti Ambrosii episcopi de Abraham
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 26)
Ambrose, De Ioseph
Rubric: ... De sancto Ioseph
Language(s): Latin
3. (fol. 47)
Ambrose, De patriarchis
Rubric: '... De Patriarchis', usually entitled 'De benedictionibus Patriarcharum'
Language(s): Latin
4. (fol. 62v)
Ambrose, De excessu fratris sui Satyri
Rubric: ... De excessu fratris sui
Language(s): Latin
5. (fol. 105)
Ambrose, Epistula ad Vercellensem ecclesiam
Rubric: Epistola ... ad Vercellensem ecclesiam
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 12th century, middle ; England, Ely, cathedral priory (?)

MS. Bodl. 762 – Part 2

Contents

1. (fol. 124)
Ambrose, De bono mortis
Rubric: ... De bono mortis
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 138)
Augustine, De cura pro mortuis gerenda
Rubric: Aurelii Augustini doctoris liber ... de cura pro mortuis gerenda
Language(s): Latin
3. (fol. 148v)

Two hands of c. 1300 have added a list of the subjects of a Latin theological work in 80 (?) chapters

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 12th century, middle ; England, Ely, cathedral priory (?)

MS. Bodl. 762 – Part 3

Contents

1. (fol. 150)
Ambrose, De fide
Rubric: Liber primus beati Ambrosii episcopi ad Gratianum imperatorem de Fide

Preceded by the Epistola Gratiani, and reckoned to contain six, not five, books

Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 219)
Ambrose, De spiritu sancto

In three books here reckoned as books 7-9 of the preceding treatise, and preceded (on fol. 218v) by a short list of its main theses, and an erased rubric and commencement of some treatise of Ambrose

Language(s): Latin
3. (fol. 261)
Ambrose, De incarnationis dominicae sacramento

The scribe counts this as part of De fide

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Hand(s)

The hand changes on fol. 226

History

Origin: 12th century, middle ; England, Ely, cathedral priory (?)

Provenance

On fol. 272av is written with a metal stylus 'X° Kalendas Martii feria iiiia hora diei. xia. factus est terre motus apud Ely . Anno Domini . M°. cc°. xl°vii°', i.e. Feb. 20, 1246/7

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description adapted (March 2023) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1922). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973)
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 415
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 416

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-03-23: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1922)