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Title

De fide ad gratianum augustum libri quinque

Authors

• Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397 (http://viaf.org/viaf/100227669)

Other related names

• Tanis, James, 1928-2015, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/73870109)
• Tanis, Florence, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 39
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms39.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin; Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This is a mid-fifteenth-century Italian paper manuscript of Saint Ambrose's De fide ad gratianum augustum libri quinque, a defense of Christian orthodoxy. It is undecorated, and the blank spaces left for initials have not been filled in. There are a small number of annotations. Greek phrases in the source text are either left out, with space left for words, or transliterated in Latin letters. Greek for some of the transliterations has been added in the outer margin in a later hand (fols. 69r, 111r).

Watermark

Similar to Briquet Fleur 6597

Extent

I + 151 + i; 237 x 65 mm bound to 247 x 173 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-18 (8), 19 (7, +1)

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Vertical catchwords with a simple pattern of dots between two inner bounding lines, lower right last verso

Binding

Eighteenth-century half-bound vellum over marbled paper boards; gold-tooling on spine; also on spine in capital letters on dark brown label: "Sapientiam/ Salomonis/ Manoscr./ Cartac."

Layout

One column of twenty-three lines; blindruled with double vertical bounding lines; occasional partial top line in metal point; written area: 147 x 90 mm

Decoration

Spaces for seven-line initials left open at the beginning of each book; chapters have spaces for two-line initials and a few lines are left blank between chapters, perhaps for headings; guide letters visible in most spaces; the first two to seven lines of each book are written in rustic capitals

Script

Humanistic cursive

Provenance

• Written in Italy in the middle of the fifteenth century; notes in various hands on front pastedown: "Ambrosii", "7", "Cod. III. Latine"; on f. i "Forsam Rabbi Salomon" has been lined out; below that "Di fogli 150"; at the bottom of fol. i recto and continuing on to the verso are notes in Italian that explain how one owner discovered the attribution to Ambrose, along with the incipit and explicit of the text and citations for editions of 1784 and 1690: "Del presente codice. . . "; the first two lines of this statement have been written twice, the first attempt has been crossed out; shelf mark on fol. 1r "63"; purchased by James and Florence Tanis in the 1960s in Los Angeles, California, from an unknown dealer, and given by them to Bryn Mawr Library in honor of Leo M. Dolenski in April 1997
   

Keywords

• 15th century
• Church Fathers
• Theology
• Italy
• Italian

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Book 1]; incipit: Regina austri venit audire sapientiam salomonis: ut in libro regnorum legimus: hyram quoque rex ad Salomonem misit: ut cognosceret eum. [fol 1r]; explicit: Non potes ergo inuisibilis aut bonus non esse quae etiam tuis operibus contulisti. [fol. 24v]
• fol. 25r — [Book 2]; incipit: Satis ut arbitror libro superiore sancte imperator ... [fol. 25r]; explicit: ... de unitate maiestatis quod unius sit filius cum patre substantiae [fol. 47r]
• fol. 47v — [Book 3]; incipit: Quoniam claementissime imperator instruendi tui gratia aliqua de fide mihi scribenda mandaveras. [fol. 47v]; explicit: Vulneribus quidem aduersarii cruentatum sed christi praemii coronatum. [fol. 72r]
• fol. 72r — [Book 4]; incipit: Consyderanti mihi imperator Auguste qua ratione sic erraverit hominum genus ... [fol. 72r]; explicit: Vt omne humanum genus ab aestu saecularium noxium uoluptatum diffusae salutaribus brachiis crucis umbra uelaret. [fol. 101r]
• fol. 101r — [Book 5]; incipit: Quisnam est fidelis servus et prudens quem constituit dominus super familiam suam ... [fol. 101r]; explicit: Sic et arrius altissimum dei filium sui similem uult uideri: quem non in diuinitatis aeternae maiestate ueneratur: Sed ex carnis infirmitate metitur. Telos. [fol. 150v]