This volume preserves most of St Ambrose (b. c. 339, d. 397)'s
Epistulae (Letters). It also includes two other works by Ambrose:
De Obitu Theodosii (On the Death of Theodosius I) and De Nabuthe
Jezraelita (On Naboth the Jezreelite). The manuscript may initially
have been part of a larger volume since the first text in the
manuscript is only the latter part of Ambrose’s Letter 7, and the
closing text contains only the first part of De Nabuthe Jezraelita
. Contents:ff. 1r-2r: Ambrose, Letter 7, beginning: 'Amici
persuadent tibi manis et necessitatem inferre Indorum
philosophis'.ff. 2r-3r: Ambrose, Letter 8, beginning: 'Acerbo te
doliturum dolore obitum'.ff. 3r-3v: Ambrose, Letter 9, beginning:
'Iacta tuam te gravi aegritudine'.ff. 3v-9r: Ambrose, Letter 6,
beginning: 'Videbamur proxime in disceptationes incidisse
philosophiae'.ff. 9r-10v: Ambrose, Letter 12, beginning: 'Ubi
superiorem absolvi epistolam'.ff. 10v-11v: Ambrose, Letter 13,
beginning: 'Differentia caritatis utrum sit aliqua'.ff. 11v-12v:
Ambrose, Letter 14, beginning: 'Superiore epistola scripsimus
liberandam ab adversariis'.f. 12v: Ambrose, Letter 15, beginning:
'Pertulisti ad me quasi filius'.ff. 12v-14r: Ambrose, Letter 16,
beginning: 'Poposcisti ut summam aepistolae quae ad Ephesios'.ff.
14r-15r: Ambrose, Letter 17, beginning: 'Plerumque humanis obrepit
mentibus ut aliqua levi'.ff. 15r-17v: Ambrose, Letter 18,
beginning: 'Prophetae quidem congregationem gentium atque ecclesie
adnuntiarunt'.ff. 17v-18r: Ambrose, Letter 19, beginning:
'Superiore epistola de ea anima sermonem contulimus'.ff. 18r-19v:
Ambrose, Letter 20, beginning: 'Non otiose quaerendum putasti quae
sit rei divine’.ff. 19v-20v: Ambrose, Letter 21, beginning:
'Quesisti a me utrus anima caelestis'.ff. 20v-22r: Ambrose, Letter
22, beginning: 'Superior epistola tuae inquisitioni respondit'.ff.
22r-22v: Ambrose, Letter 23, beginning: 'Concatenantur sibi
epistole nostre utaquam'.ff. 22v-23v: Ambrose, Letter 24,
beginning: 'Apud me decursus est tui textus negotii'.ff. 23v-24r:
Ambrose, Letter 25, beginning: 'Silentium meum rupit sermo
clementie tuae'.ff. 24r-24v: Ambrose, Letter 26, beginning:
'Apparitor prefecture qui propter opera portuenses'.ff. 24v-25v:
Ambrose, Letter 27, beginning: 'Paulinum splendore generis in
partibus'.ff. 25v-27v: Ambrose, Letter 28, beginning: 'Num quid nam
mentitur deus'.ff. 27v-29v: Ambrose, Letter 29, beginning: 'Moveri
te insinuasti mihi'.ff. 29v-31r: Ambrose, Letter 30, beginning: 'Et
si superioris legationis meae fides ita approbata sit'.ff. 31r-33r:
Ambrose, Letter 31, beginning: 'Divisionem egregie advertisti
propheticam vel potius'. ff. 33r-34r: Ambrose, Letter 32,
beginning: 'Remisisti mihi libellos quos tuo'.ff. 34r-35r: Ambrose,
Letter 34, beginning: 'Lecto exameron utrum paradisum subtexuerim
requirendum'.ff. 35r-35v: Ambrose, Letter 35, beginning: 'Quid
filio nostro remisisti meo rogatu quia te'.ff. 35v-39r: Ambrose,
Letter 36, beginning: 'Suscepisti munus sacerdotii et in puppe
ecclesie sedens'.ff. 39r-39v: Ambrose, Letter 37, beginning:
'Transmisi petitum codicem scriptum apertius'.ff. 39v-40r: Ambrose,
Letter 38, beginning: 'Faustinus uterque tibi redditus est nobis
utrumque Ambrosium'.ff. 40r-41v: Ambrose, Letter 39, beginning:
'Quem scripsisti maledici seminatorem sermonis'.ff. 41v-42v:
Ambrose, Letter 40, beginning: 'Clamavit perdix congregavit quae
non peperit'.f. 42v: Ambrose, Letter 41, beginning: 'Prisco amico
et aequaelio meo dedisti advenienti litteras'.f. 42v: Ambrose,
Letter 42, beginning: 'Prisco meo dedisti litteras Priscus
meus'.ff. 42v-43r: Ambrose, Letter 43, beginning: 'Misisti mihi
tubera et quidem mirae magnitudinis'.f. 43r: Ambrose, Letter 44,
beginning: 'Cum sis in agro miror qua ratione de me querendum'.ff.
43r-43v: Ambrose, Letter 45, beginning: 'Venit tibi innocens
victori aut sine voti amaritudine'.f. 43v: Ambrose, Letter 46,
beginning: 'Gratum est mihi cum litteras accipio tuas'.ff. 43v-44r:
Ambrose, Letter 47, beginning: 'Holibius filius noster cum de
Affricanis regressus partibus in quibus'.ff. 44r-44v: Ambrose,
Letter 48, beginning: 'Epistularum genus propterea repertum ut
quidam nobiscum absentibus sermo'.f. 45r: Ambrose, Letter 49,
beginning: 'Ex ultimo persidis prefectus sinu Iacobis'.ff. 45r-45v:
Ambrose, Letter 50, beginning: 'Recognosco purae affectum mentis et
fidei studium'.ff. 45v-47r: Ambrose, Letter 51, beginning:
'Sacerdotibus et omni clero et plebi'.ff. 47r-47v: Ambrose, Letter
52, beginning: 'Iam dudum teneo etsi nunc primo lego meritisque'.f.
48r: Ambrose, Letter 53, beginning: 'Summus quidem splendor in
sermone est tuo'.ff. 48r-48v: Ambrose, Letter 54, beginning:
'Quaeris a me cur Dominus manna pluerit populo patrum'.ff. 48v-49v:
Ambrose, Letter 55, beginning: 'Negant plerique nostros secundum
artem scripsisse'.ff. 49v-52v : Ambrose, Letter 56, beginning:
'Prospiciendum esse ne de nostro obloquantur iudicio'.ff. 52v-55r:
Ambrose, Letter 57, beginning: 'Quae sint in nostro iudicio decursa
comperta retines'.ff. 55r-56r: Ambrose, Letter 58, beginning:
'Paterni quidem unanimi mei salutationem legi'.f. 56r: Ambrose,
Letter 59, beginning: 'Quam ingenuo commendasti pudore quia de
eo'.f. 56r: Ambrose, Letter 60, beginning: 'Numquam es tacitus mihi
nec umquam tuo me transmissum'.f. 56r: Ambrose, Letter 61,
beginning: 'Anthiochus vir cum reddidit mihi eximietatis'.ff.
56r-60r: Ambrose, Letter 62, beginning: 'Poposcisti a me
institutionis tuae insignia'.ff. 60r-61v: Ambrose, Letter 63,
beginning: 'Decursa lectione apostoli non perfunctoriae motus
es'.ff. 61v-62v: Ambrose, Letter 64, beginning: 'Audisti fili hodie
lectum in apostolo quia lex'.ff. 63r-63v: Ambrose, Letter 65,
beginning: 'Etsi sciam quod nihil difficilius sit quam'.ff.
63v-64v: Ambrose, Letter 66, beginning: 'Si Abraham credidit domino
et reputatum est ei'.ff. 64v-65v: Ambrose, Letter 67, beginning:
'Audisti frater lectionem evangelii in qua decursum est'.ff.
65v-67v: Ambrose, Letter 68, beginning: 'Etsi iam superiore
epistola hanc quam propuisti'.ff. 67v-70r: Ambrose, Letter 69,
beginning: 'Non mediocris plerosque movet questio'.ff. 70r-70v:
Ambrose, Letter 70, beginning: 'Non habet quod urgeat Evagrius'.ff.
71r-71v: Ambrose, Letter 71, beginning: 'De Bonoso direxistis
episcopo quibus vel pueritate'.ff. 71v-73r: Ambrose, Letter 72,
beginning: 'Cum omnes homines qui sub dicione romana sunt vobis
militent'.ff. 73r-74v: Ambrose, Letter 72a, beginning: 'Vidit
purgari famam temporum proximorum boni'.ff. 74v-78r: Ambrose,
Letter 73, beginning: 'Cum vir clarissimus prefectus urbis
Symmachus'.ff. 78r-81r: Ambrose, Letter 74, beginning: 'Exercitus
semper iugibus seu curis sum'.ff. 81r-82r: Ambrose, Letter 75,
beginning: 'Dalmatius me tribunus et notarius mandato ut
alligavit'.ff. 82r-86r: Ambrose, Letter 75a, beginning: 'Video vos
preter solitum subito esse turbatos'.ff. 86r-88v: Ambrose, Letter
76, beginning: 'Quoniam omnibus epistolis fere sollicite queri de
ecclesia accipe'. ff. 88v-94v: Ambrose, De obitu Theodosii ,
beginning: 'Hoc nobis motus terrarum graves hoc'. ff. 94v-97r:
Ambrose, Letter 77, beginning: 'Domine soror vite atque osculis
preferendae'. ff. 97r-100v: Ambrose, De Nabuthe Jezraelita ,
beginning: 'Nabuthae historia tempore vetus est usu quotidiana'.
Decoration:Numerous large initials in red, occasionally with some
penwork decoration in red or with a reserved line, several with
some green (ff. 82r, 88v, 97r). Spaces for rubrics have
occasionally been left blank. There is one incorrect initial (f.
3r).Numerous instances of pen-flourishing (ff. 1r, 2r, 17v, 18r,
25v, 33r, 48r, 63v, 78r, 88v, 94v) forming a one-sided foliate
border including a bird (f.1r), and one line-filler (f. 100v), all
added in the 16th or 17th century.Quire marks and quire signatures:
'A', 'q xiii' (both f. 41v); 'q xv' (f. 50r); 'q xvii' (f. 59r); 'q
xviii' (f. 63r); 'q xviiij' (f. 68v); '.a.' (f. 76v), '.B.' (f.
84v).Some marks indicating leaves facing each other within quires:
'a' (ff. 23v, 24r; 34v, 35r), 'b' (ff. 25v, 26r; 36v, 37r), 'c'
(ff. 27v, 28r).The spaces between words are occasionally stretched
towards the end of a quire (see ff. 33v, 62v, 68v).
Place
Preferred form
France
Original form
France, Europe
Other form
France
France (Paris ? Fontainebleau ?)
France.
France (?)
Lieu de copie : France ( ?) : cf. Hans-Collas ― Schandel, p. 327
France ?
France -- 16e siècle
Frankreich
França
Francia
Frankrijk
Abbaye de Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
Abadia de Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
Abtei Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
Abbey of Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
Abadía de Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
Abdij van Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
Région de la Loire (Abbaye de Fleury ?)
Loire Region (Abbey of Fleury?)
Regió del Loira (Abadia de Fleury ?)
Región del Loira (Abadía de Fleury ?)
France (Abbaye de Fleury ?)
França (Abadia de Fleury?)
Francia (Abadía de Fleury?)
France (Abbey of Fleury?)
Frankreich (Abtei Fleury?)
Frankrijk (Abdij van Fleury?)
France (est : Lorraine ?)
França (est: Lorena?)
Ostfrankreich (Lothringen?)
Eastern France (Lorraine?)
Francia (este: Lorena?)
Lothringen
Lorena
Lotharingen
Lorraine
França (Borgonya?)
France (Burgundy?)
Francia (Borgoña)
France (Bourgogne ?)
Frankrijk (Bourgondië?)
France (Bretagne ?)
França (Bretanya?)
Frankreich (Bretagne?)
France (Brittany?)
Francia (Bretaña)
Frankrijk (Bretagne?)
France (ouest : Bretagne ?)
Western France (Brittany?)
França (oest: Bretanya?)
Francia (oeste: Bretaña?)
Frankrijk (westen) (Bretagne?)
Westfrankreich: Bretagne?
Bretagne
Bretanya
Bretaña
Brittany
Probably the Loire region
France: Auxerre or Brittany
France: Fleury. vicinity of Paris (Saint-Denis?) (Bischoff)
