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MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 210

Summary Catalogue no.: 19196

(fols. 1ra-88vb)

Ambrose, Letters

Incipit: ||aduenit factus ex muliere

In the following order (CSEL numbers are followed in parentheses by the Maurist numbers):

(fol. 1ra) Ep. 65 (75) (begins imperfect in § 7; text continues from MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 229, fol. 73vb)
(fol. 1ra) Ep. 68 (26)
(fol. 2va) Ep. 54 (64)
(fol. 3rb) Ep. 17 (81)
(fol. 4rb) Ep. 5 (4)
(fol. 4vb) Ep. 43 (3)
(fol. 5ra) Ep. 8 (39)
(fol. 5vb) Ep. 9 (79)
(fol. 6rb) Ep. 18 (70)
(fol. 8vb) Ep. 19 (71)
(fol. 9va) Ep. 20 (77)
(fol. 11ra) Ep. 21 (34)
(fol. 12ra) Ep. 22 (35)
(fol. 13vb) Ep. 23 (36)
(fol. 14rb) Ep. 29 (43)
(fol. 16va) Ep. 31 (44)
(fol. 18rb) Ep. 66 (78)
(fol. 19ra) Ep. 67 (80)
(fol. 19vb) Ep. 24 (82)
(fol. 20vb) Ep. 26 (54)
(fol. 21ra) Ep. 38 (55)
(fol. 21va) Ep. 27 (58)
(fol. 23ra) Ep. 32 (48)
(fol. 23va) Ep. 33 (49)
(fol. 24ra) Ep. 34 (45)
(fol. 25rb) Ep. 37 (47)
(fol. 25vb) Ep. 39 (46)
(fol. 27rb) Ep. 40 (32)
(fol. 28ra) Ep. 28 (50)
(fol. 29va) Ep. 35 (83)
(fol. 30rb) Ep. 36 (2)
(fol. 33va) Ep. 69 (72)
(fol. 36rb) Ep. 41 (86)
(fol. 36rb) Ep. 46 (85)
(fol. 36va) Ep. 42 (88)
(fol. 36va) Ep. 44 (68)
(fol. 36vb) Ep. 48 (66)
(fol. 37vb) Ep. 45 (52)
(fol. 38ra) Ep. 47 (87)
(fol. 38rb) Ep. 49 (59)
(fol. 38va) Ep. 50 (25)
(fol. 39ra) Ep. 51 (15)
(fol. 40ra) Ep. 52 (16)
(fol. 41ra) Ep. 53 (91)
(fol. 41ra) Ep. 56 (5)
(fol. 43ra) Ep. 57 (6)
(fol. 45va) Ep. 58 (60)
(fol. 46va) Ep. 59 (84)
(fol. 46va) Ep. 60 (90)
(fol. 46vb) Ep. 61 (89)
(fol. 46vb) Ep. 62 (19)
(fol. 50va) Ep. 70 (56)
(fol. 51vb) Ep. 77 (22)
(fol. 53vb) Ep. extra coll. 14 (63)
(fol. 64rb) Ep. 30 (24)
(fol. 65vb) Ep. 72 (17)
(fol. 67rb) Ep. 72a (17a, Relatio Symmachi)
(fol. 68vb) Ep. 73 (18)
(fol. 72rb) Ep. 75 (21)
(fol. 73va) Ep. 75a (21a, Sermo contra Auxentium)
(fol. 77rb) Ep. 76 (20)
(fol. 79vb) Ep. 74 (Extra coll. 1a) (40)
(fol. 82vb) Ep. 25 (53)
(fol. 83rb) Ep. extra coll. 2 (61)
(fol. 83vb) Ep. extra coll. 3 (62)
(fol. 84ra) Ep. extra coll. 4 (10)
(fol. 85rb) Ep. extra coll. 5 (11)
(fol. 85vb) Ep. extra coll. 6 (12)
(fol. 86va) Ep. extra coll. 7
(fol. 87vb) Ep. extra coll. 8 (14)
(fol. 88va) Ep. extra coll. 9 (13) (ends imperfect in § 5; text continues in MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 229, fol. 58ra).

Attached to fol. 37v is a fifteenth-century piece of paper with an instruction not to copy Ep. 47 (87).

Quires 4–14 of a larger book; quires 3 and 15 are now MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 229, fols. 58–73.

MS. Rawl. D. 893 fols. 76–7 were formerly part of this volume.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: i (paper) + 88 + i (modern paper slip with list of letters) + i

Dimensions (leaf): 340 × 245 mm.

Foliation: 1–88, the endleaves unfoliated.

Layout

2 cols., 34 lines, written space 250 × 170 mm.

Decoration

Red initials with a little 'arabesque' decoration.

Rubrics.

Binding

Canonici binding.

History

Origin: 12th century, second half ; Italian, North, Lombardy (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Francesco Petrarch, 1304–1374: annotations in his hand.

Pietro Donato, 1380–1447: annotations in his hand.

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Record Sources

Adapted by Matthew Holford, with additional description (June 2019: content, dimensions, layout, decoration) from the following sources:

A. C. de la Mare, ‘‘Sapiens ubique est civis’: Petrarch's copy of Ambrose's letters’, in Manuscripts at Oxford: an exhibition in memory of Richard William Hunt (1908–1979) (1980), 145–6 [date, localization, provenance, binding]

H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854)

Quarto Catalogue, cols. 405–6

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 330

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (12 images from 35mm slides)

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2019-06-18: Description revised with reference to de la Mare and MS.

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