Ambrosius, Saint, (340?-397)

Fragment containing the last two and a half chapters of the 'Exameron'. Written in a neat gothic hand 34 lines to a page. Last line in red. Some marginal notes in an early 16th cent. hand. Fol. 1 [prae]sidia: ut si peruigil speculator in portis sit obsidionis possit periculum/propulsare... 6v ... Ipse enim requieuit qui fecit: cui est honor, gloria, perpetuitas a se/culis et nunc et semper et omnia secula seculorum AMEN:/(red) Explicit exameron sancti ambrosii de opere sex dierum: The leaves are foliated 71-79 in a 16th cent. hand. This fragment contains Section 8, para, 49, line 22 to the end of the Sixth Day in Schenkl's edition of the 'Opera' Pars. I, pp. 240-261.

Early 14th Century

1 volume 9 ll. (last 3 bl.). folio. 30 x 21 cm. Unbound.

Purchased 1935.

Extracted from a volume of miscellaneous MS. literary and historical pieces, collected by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford [1766-1827].

Saint Ambrosius, c.340-397

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).