Ambrosiaster — 11th century

Title

Ambrosiaster — 11th century

Shelfmark

MS. Bodl. 756

Date

11th century

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ii + 145 leaves

Hands

The lemmata are often in Uncials

Binding

White leather on worm-eaten boards, clasp lost, English 15th century work

Chainmark at foot of first cover in the centre; another at foot of second cover (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: (MLGB3); see medieval manuscripts removed from Sherborne in 1078(?)

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

'B' at head of fol. 1r (MLGB3)

'2. Liber Bibliothecae Saresburiensis' (s. xvii): No. 2 in a set of 7 numbered manuscripts from Salisbury (no. 1 has not been identified). The other 6 manuscripts are: No. 3: MS. Bodl. 698, No. 4: MS. Bodl. 765, No. 5: MS. Bodl. 768, No. 6: MS. Bodl. 516, No. 7: MS. Bodl. 835