MS. Bodl. 92

Summary Catalogue no.: 1901

Ambrose, De Officiis

Rubric: Incipit Liber primus beati Ambrosii Mediolanensis urbis archiepiscopi de Offitiis Ministrorum

Bk. 2, fol. 52v, bk. 3, fol. 81v.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment; stained with damp at each end

Extent: iii + 113 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 9.875 × 6.25 in.

Decoration

Initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 462)

History

Origin: c. 1100 ; French, Normandy or ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

For date and origin see Gneuss-Lapidge.

Exeter Cathedral: identifiable in medieval catalogues (MLGB).

Presented by the dean and chapter of Exeter in 1602.

Record Sources

Description adapted (March 2020) from the following sources:

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, I (1966), no. 462 [decoration, date, localization]

Summary Catalogue (1922) [contents, physical description, provenance, acquisition]

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 108

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

H. Gneuss and M. Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts : A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (2014), no. 543

Online resources:

MLGB3: Medieval Libraries of Great Britain

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2020-04-15: Origin revised with reference to GL.

A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges