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MS. Bodl. 835

Summary Catalogue no.: 2545

Contents

1.
Ambrose, De Ioseph patriarcha
Language(s): Latin
2.
Ambrose, De patriarchis
Language(s): Latin
3.
Ambrose, de poenitentia
Language(s): Latin
4.
Ambrose, De excessu fratris Satyri
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

History

Origin: 11th century, late (?) ; French (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Salisbury, Wiltshire, Cathedral church of St Mary the Virgin; see removed from Sherborne in 1078: The same scribe s. xii wrote the letters 'D.M.' as a 'nota bene' sign in the margins of Aberdeen UL 216, Bodl. 392, 444 (fols. 1--27), 756, 765, 768, 835; Fell 1, 4; Rawl. C.723; Salisbury Cath. 10, 24, 25, 37, 67, 78, 88, 106, 128, 129, 135, 140, 154, 159, 165. (MLGB3: evidence from marginalia, sometimes distinctive of a particular house or known scribe).

'Liber Bibliothecae Saresburiensis 7' (s. xvii). (MLGB3)

Bodley 516, 698, 756, 765, 768, 835 belonged to Salisbury cathedral in s. xvii in. Medieval binding. 'A' at head of fol. 1r. 'Liber ambrosii de prophetis ...' (s. xv). on outside of back cover. Chainmark at foot of 1st cover in centre. (MLGB3)

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1922).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 421

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2021-12-14: Add provenance information from MLGB3.