London. British Library, Royal MS 6 B VI

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  • British Library, Royal MS 6 B VI
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  • Latin
Title
  • St Ambrose, De Mysteriis ; St Ambrose, De Sacramentis ; St Ivo of Chartres, De ecclesiasticis sacramentis ; St Bruno of Segni, De sacramentis ecclesiae; St Ivo of Chartres, Epistulae
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  • Preferred form
    • Ambroise (saint, 0340?-0397)
    Original form
    • Ambrose of Milan, c 339-397, Saint, Archbishop of Milan
    Other form
    • AMBROSIUS, Mediolanensis archiepiscopus
    • Ambroise (saint, 0340?-0397)
    • Ambrosius (s.)
    • S. Ambrosius
    • AMBROSIUS MEDIOLANENSIS ep. (s.)
    • AMBROSIUS (s.)
    • Ambrosius Mediolanensis (saint ; 0340?-0397)
    • Ambrosii
    • Ambrosius Mediolanensis
    • Ambroise (saint ; 0340?-0397)
    • Ambroise (0340?-0397 ; saint)
    • Ambrosius (saint ; 0340?-0397)
    • S. Ambrosius Mediolanensis
    • Ambroise
    • S. AMBROSIUS
    • S. Ambrosius Medionalensis
    • Ambrosius Medialonensis
    • Ambrosius
    • AMBROSIUS MEDIOLANENSIS
    • Sancti Ambrosii
    • Sancti Ambrosii
    • Ambrosii [Mediolanensis]
    • Ambroise (Saint)
    • Ambroise, saint, 0340?-0397
    • Ambroise de Milan,‏ ‎saint‏, ‎0340?-0397
    • Ambrosius von Mailand‏, ‎339/340-397‏
    • Ambroise, saint, évêque de Milan, m. 397
    • Ambrosius Mediolanensis, 0340?-0397
    • Ambrosius Mediolanensis,‏ ‎d. 397
    • Ambrosius,‏ ‎Episcopus Mediolanensis‏, ‎339/340-397
    • Ambrosius Mediolanensis‏
    • Ambrosius van Milaan
    • Ambroise, saint, évêque de Milan, m. 397
    • Ambrosio de Milán,‏ ‎Santo
    • Aurelius Ambrosius,‏ ‎Santo, Obispo de Milán
    • Ambròs, sant, bisbe de Milà, 339-397
    • Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397
    • Ambrosio, Santo, Obispo de Milán
    • Ambrosius (heilige)
    • Ambrosius Mediolanensis 339/340-397
    • Author: Ambrosius, Mediolanensis
    • Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397
    • Ambrose
    • Ambrosius Mediolanensis, 339?-397
    • Ambroise (saint)
    • Ambrosius<Mediolanensis>
    • S. Ambroise
    • Saint Ambroise
    • Ambrosius <Mediolanensis> (339-397)
    • Ambroise de Milan (v. 340-v. 397)
    • Ambrosius <Mediolanensis>
    • Ambrósio, Santo, 337-397
    • Ambrosius Mediolanensis - ca. 340 - 397 - auteur
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  • Preferred form
    • Bruno de Segni (saint, 104.-1123)
    Original form
    • Bruno of Segni, c 1048-1123, Saint, Bishop of Segni
    Other form
    • Bruno Signiensis
    • Bruno de Segni (saint ; 104.-1123)
    • S. Bruno Astensis
    • BRUNO SIGNIENSIS ep. (s.)
    • Bruno, Segni, 1048-1123
    • Bruno of Asti
    • Bruno.
    • Bruno Segniensis, ?-1123, O.S.B.
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  • Preferred form
    • Yves de Chartres (saint, 1040?-1116)
    Original form
    • Ivo of Chartres, c 1040-1116, Saint, Bishop of Chartres
    Other form
    • Ivo Carnotensis
    • Ivo Carnotensis (saint ; 1040?-1116)
    • Yves de Chartres
    • Yves de Chartres (saint ; 1040?-1116)
    • Yvonis Carnotensis
    • Yvo Carnotensis
    • IVO CARNOTENSIS
    • IVO CARNOTENSIS ep.
    • Ivonis
    • Author: Ivo, Carnotensis
    • Ivo of Chartres
    • Ivo, Saint, Bishop of Chartres, approximately 1040-1116
    • Ivo Carnotensis, 1040?-1116
    • Ivo <Carnotensis> (1040-1115)
    • Ivo, Saint, Bishop of Chartres (approximately 1040-1116)
    • Yves de Chartres (v. 1040 - 1115)
    • Ivo, Carnotensis, 1040-1116
    • Ivo de Chartres, Santo, 1090-1115
    • Ivo Carnotensis - gest. 1115 - oorspronkelijke auteur
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Description
  • This manuscript was written by two scribes (ff. 1-22 and ff. 23-126), according to Waller, 'The Library, Scriptorium and Community' (1980), p. 314. The second hand (Rochester scribe 4) also wrote Royal MS 5 B IV and Royal MS 15 A XXII, according to Waller. This manuscript consists of two texts of St Ambrose, a Father of the Church, the De Mysteriis, a dogmatic work on baptism, confirmation and Eucharist intended for catechumen, and the De Sacramentis ,which consists of six sermons whose content is similar to the De Mysteriis, including instructions for prayers, and the Canon of the Mass. It includes other works related to sacraments written by St Ivo of Chartres (b. c. 1040, d. c. 1116), bishop of Chartres and defender of the Gregorian reform, and by St Bruno of Segni (d. 1123), abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Monte-Cassino and bishop of Segni. Contents: ff. 2r-8v: St Ambrose, De Mysteriis (About Mysteries) , beginning: 'Incipit liber beati Ambrosii Mediolanensis archiepiscopi de Misteriis sive Initiandis. De moralibus cotidianum sermonem'. ff. 8v-22v: St Ambrose, De Sacramentis (About Sacraments), consists of six sermons, beginning: 'Incipit sermo Primus de sacramentis. De sacramentis que accepistis'. ff. 23r-58r: St Ivo of Chartres, De ecclesiasticis sacramentis (About the ecclesiastical sacraments), beginning: 'Sermo de sacramentis neophitorum habitus in synodo. Quoniam populus ad fidem vocatus'; imperfect at the end, ending with sermon 8 ( De Nativitate Christi ): 'Audiamus Paulum amicum sponsi casto amore zelantem non sibi sed sponso'. Sermons 9-25 are lacking. ff. 58r-66r: St Bruno of Segni, De sacramentis ecclesiae (About the sacraments of the Church), beginning: 'Dilectissimo frati (sic) Gaio (sic) Magalonensi episcopo Braviro (sic) Signiensis episcopus salutem'. ff. 66v-126r: Ivo of Chartres, Epistulae (Epistles), 92 letters, beginning: 'Ivo dei gratia humilis Carnotensium episcopus dilectissimo abbati maioris monasterii B[ernardo] et qui tecum sunt fratribus in domino salute. Quoniam summus pastor pastoris nomen habere nos voluit'. It includes extracts from Ivo of Chartes's Panormia (ff. 91r-97v). Decoration:This manuscript was illuminated by an artist working in both Rochester and Canterbury c. 1120, according to Heslop, 'Dunstanus Archiepiscopus' (1984). Other manuscripts illuminated by him are: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 271, Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.I.4, and probably Royal MS 5 C I and Royal MS 5 D III (see Waller, 'The Library, Scriptorium and Community' (1980), p. 314). One historiated initial of Ambrose and one containing griffins, in colours, at the beginnings of works of St Ambrose and St Ivo of Chartres (ff. 2r, 23r). Initials in red, purple, or green, some with penwork decoration or highlights in yellow.Instructions for rubrics in the lower margins.
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