Ambrose — 11th century, late (?); England, Salisbury, Wiltshire, Cathedral church of St Mary the Virgin (?)
MS. Bodl. 835
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Ambrose — 11th century, late (?); England, Salisbury, Wiltshire, Cathedral church of St Mary the Virgin (?)
Shelfmark
MS. Bodl. 835
Place of origin
England, Salisbury, Wiltshire, Cathedral church of St Mary the Virgin (?)
Date
11th century, late (?)
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
ii + 81 leaves
Binding
White parchment on boards, clasp lost, title on outer end cover, once protected by talc (?); English 15th century work, damaged.
Chainmark at foot of 1st cover in centre (MLGB3)
Acquisition
Salisbury Cathedral library was raided in the English Civil War, and this manuscript was probably given (as part of the set of 7 manuscripts) to the Bodleian during or soon after the war, but it is not found in Bodleian lists until about 1655
Provenance
Salisbury, Wiltshire, Cathedral church of St Mary the Virgin; see medieval manuscripts removed from Sherborne in 1078(?)
Teresa Webber, Scribes and Scholars at Salisbury Cathedral c. 1075-c. 1125 (1992), argues that the Salisbury collection represents the earliest English attempt to adopt the recommendations of Cassiodorus in the Institutiones, and that the Ambose texts in MS. Bodl. 835 were copied at Salisbury as part of that initiative (p. 36 and fn. 19)', with 'Salisbury produced the earliest or one of the earliest extant English copies of [...] several opuscula of Ambrose (Oxford, Bodl. Libr., MSS Bodley 698, 768 and 835)'.
A Salisbury scribe (s. xii) wrote the letters 'D.M.' as a 'nota bene' sign in the margins of Aberdeen UL 216, MS. Bodl. 392, MS. Bodl. 444(fols 1-27), MS. Bodl. 756, MS. Bodl. 765, MS. Bodl. 768, MS. Bodl. 835, MS. Fell 1, MS. Fell 4, MS. Rawl. C. 723, Salisbury Cathedral, MSS. 10, 24, 25, 37, 67, 78, 88, 106, 128, 129, 135, 140, 154, 159, 165 ( MLGB3); see Webber, Scribes and Scholars at Salisbury Cathedral c. 1075-c. 1125 (1992), pp. 132-139
'A' at head of fol. 1r 'Liber ambrosii de prophetis ...' (s. xv) on outside of back cover (MLGB3)
'Liber Bibliothecae Saresburiensis 7' (s. xvii): No. 7 in a set of 7 numbered manuscripts from Salisbury (no. 1 has not been identified). The other 6 manuscripts are: No. 2: MS. Bodl. 756, No. 3: MS. Bodl. 698, No. 4: MS. Bodl. 765No. 5: MS. Bodl. 768, No. 6: MS. Bodl. 516,
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