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

MS. Hatton 17

Summary Catalogue no.: 4108

Contents

1. (fol. 1)
Ambrose, De fide
Rubric: Liber beati Ambrosii Mediolanensis archiepiscopi de Fide ad Gratianum imperatorem

In five books, with preface.

Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 56v)
Ambrose, De spiritu sancto
Rubric: S. Ambrosius de Spiritu Sancto

In three books, here reckoned as books 7-9 of the preceding treatise

Preceded (fol. 56) by the 'Epistola Gratiani imperatoris' to Ambrose, and by a list of chapters.

Language(s): Latin
3. (fol. 94)
Ambrose, De incarnationis dominicae sacramento
Rubric: Sermo eiusdem de Incarnatione Domini
Language(s): Latin
4. (fol. 102)
Ambrose, De Helia et ieiunio
Rubric: Sermo eiusdem de Helya & de ieiunio
Language(s): Latin
5. (fol. 112)
De trinubio Annae
Incipit: Anna & Emeria sorores fuerunt

Added in a slightly later hand

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: xii + 124 leaves. Fols ii-xii, 113-123 are paper leaves inserted by a 17th-century binder, all blank except fol. ii
Dimensions (binding): 12.25 × 8.25 in.

Layout

2 cols

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 269

Initials

History

Origin: 12th century, second quarter ; England

Provenance and Acquisition

Christopher, first Baron Hatton (d. 1670)

Bought in 1671 by the Bodleian through the London bookseller Robert Scot (b. in or before 1632, d. 1709/1710); see Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 2, p. 801

Record Sources

Description adapted (May 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1937). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973)

Last Substantive Revision

2024-05-13: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1937)