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Ambrosius

Epistolae.

 

Analysis of Content

[*1r] [Table of contents.] With a detailed table of contents of the Epistolae [after the colophon and registrum].

[*2r] Dulcinius, Stephanus: [Letter of dedication] to Ludovicus Maria Sforza acknowledging the contribution of the editor, Nicolaus Antiquarius. Incipit: ‘[N]icolaus Antiquarius, magnanime princeps, iuuenis non minus bonarum litterarum cupidus quam medicinae artis professor solertissimus Jacobique antiquarii tui, ut eius laudes uno uerbo attingam, nepos et uerus domesticarum uirtutum emulatione heres superioribus diebus diui Ambrosii epistolas elegantes simul et sanctis praeceptis refertas impressoribus traditurus, mihi aliquot in locis corrigendas demandauit . . .’ Saxius 501-2.

a1r Ambrosius: Epistola ad Vercelensem ecclesiam. CSEL LXXXII/3, 235-95. Normally book X, letter 5 (LXXXII)

b4r Ambrosius: Epistola de inventione Paschae. CSEL LXXXII/3, 222-34. Normally book X, letter 6 (LXXXIII)

b6v Ambrosius: [Epistolae, ten books.] PL XVI 876-1286 (rearranged: see synopsis 867-74). CSEL LXXXII/1, 3-241; LXXXII/2, 3-192; LXXXII/3, 3-140. See CPL 160.

t1r Ambrosius [pseudo-]; [Prosper Tiro Aquitanus]: De vocatione omnium gentium, two books. PL XVII 1073-1132 (among the works of Ambrosius). PL LI 647-722 (among the works of Prosper Tiro Aquitanus).

y4v [Anonymus Mediolanensis]: De aedificatione Mediolani. Incipit: ‘[N]auigationis ceptae cursus, quos ut credo sancto spiritu gubernante ac impellente adorior, eo dirigere cogor, ut primo de urbis, ad quam uela tendere proposui, situ, qualitate loci, causa uocabuli ac dignitatis quicquid ubi repperierim pro modulo meo elucubrare debeam . . . Conabor quamuis balbutiente lingua proferre, cantans domino cum psalmista et dicens: “Domine labia mea aperies, et os meum annuntiabit laudem tuam” [Ps 50,17] atque utinam clementer subinferre dignetur et addere “Aperi os tuum” [Ez 2,8] et ego adimplebo illud.’ An excerpt from Anonymi Mediolanensis libellus De situ civitatis Mediolani, de adventu Barnabe apostoli et de vitis pontificum Mediolanensium, ed. Alessandro and Giuseppe Colombo, Rerum italicarum scriptores, I/2 (Bologna, [1943]), 6-14. See Luigi Alberto Ferrai, ‘Il “De situ urbis mediolanensis” e la chiesa Ambrosiana nel secolo X', Bollettino dell'Istituto Storico Italiano, 11 (1892), 99-160 and Mirella Ferrari, ‘  “Recensiones” milanesi tardo-antiche, carolinge, basso-medioevali di opere di sant'Ambrogio', Ambrosius episcopus. Atti del Congresso internazionale di studi ambrosiani nel XVI centenario della elevazione di sant'Ambrogio alla cattedra episcopale, ed. Giuseppe Lazzati, I (Milano, 1976), 35-102, at 48 n. 32.

y6r Ambrosius: De Isaac vel anima. PL XIV 501-34. CSEL XXXII/1b, 641-700 See CPL 128; Stegmüller, Repertorium biblicum, 1232.

&8v Ambrosius: De fuga saeculi. PL XIV 569-96. CSEL XXXII/2, 163-207. See CPL 133.

Imprint

Imprint: Milan: Antonius Zarotus, 1 Feb. 1491. Folio.

Collation

Collation: [*]2 a–q8 r4 s8 t6 u x8 y6 z4 &8 [con]6 [rum]4.

References

ISTC: ia00553000

GW: GW 1601;

Hain: HC, Addenda, *899;

Goff: Goff A‑553;

BMC: BMC VI 722;

Proctor: Pr 5829;

Others: BSB‑Ink A‑479; CIBN A‑292; Ganda 173; Oates 2259; Sheppard 4876.

LCN: 14427699

Copies

Copy number: A-230(1)

Binding: Eighteenth/nineteenth-century Italian parchment over pasteboards.

Size: 306 × 210 × 35 mm.

Size of leaf: 299 × 208 mm.

Early foliation.

Provenance: Dimitrij Petrovich, Count Boutourlin (1763-1829); book-plate and shelfmark no. 456: see Catalogue (1831); sale (1840), lot 112. Purchased for £2. 5. 0; see Books Purchased (1841), 2.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 3.29.


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