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• Résumé : This manuscript contains works by, or attributed to, Ambrose (c. 339-97) on the theme of virginity, and on the virtues and vices. The manuscript seems to have been written at St Augustine's, Canterbury, although the script, and the fine decorated initials with brightly coloured grounds, are more usually associated with Christ Church. The same scribe's hand can be seen in CCCC MS 94 and CCCC MS 270. James thought that the manuscript was written in the eleventh century, although recent scholars have proposed a twelfth-century date, perhaps as late as 1140. The thematic concerns of the manuscript, particularly the focus on chastity, might place its compilation within an ecclesiastical reform context.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : latin

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Ambrose - author

  1r-33r - Ambrose, De uirginibus || Beatus Ambrosiusde virginitate libri iii

  rubric : (1r) Incipit Liber primus beati Ambrosii de virginitate

  incipit : (1r) Si iuxta Celestis

  Note : (P. L. XVI 187)

  Note : (Red, blue and green capitals. Initial very fine, in polychrome, purple, green, blue, red)

  Note : (14r) Liber II, good initial with dragons

  Note : (23v) Liber III

  explicit : (33r) quem querebat inuenit

  rubric : (33r) Explicit liber III beati Ambrosii de uirginitate

  
  

  33r-100v - Ambrose, De uiduis || Beatus Ambrosiusde viduis libri iii

  rubric : (33r) Incipit liber primus beati Ambrosii de uiduis

  incipit : (33r) Bene accidit frater

  Note : (P. L. XVI 234)

  Note : (33r) Fine bright initial with men and dragons

  Note : (55r) Liber II, fine initial

  Note : (80r) Liber III

  explicit : (100v) seruare digneris

  rubric : (100v) Explicit liber tercius beati Ambrosii de uiduis

  
  

  Intervenants :

  pseudo-Ambrose - author

  100v-108r - pseudo-Ambrose, De lapsu virginis consecratae, ch. 1-8 || Beatus Ambrosiusde lapsu virginis

  rubric : (100v) Sermo beati Ambrosii de lapsu uirginis

  incipit : (100v) Audite qui longe

  Note : (100v) Very fine initial

  explicit : (108r) ab ipso quere remedium

  
  

  108r-109r - pseudo-Ambrose, De lapsu virginis conscratae, ch. 9 || Beatus Ambrosiusad corruptorem virginis

  rubric : (108r) Eiusdem ad corruptorem uirginis

  incipit : (108r) De te autem quid dicam

  explicit : (109r) siue bonum siue malum

  
  

  109r-112v - pseudo-Ambrose, De lapsu virginis consecratae, ch. 10 || Beatus Ambrosiusad lapsam virginem

  rubric : (109r) Eiusdem ad lapsam uirginem

  incipit : (109r) Quis consoletur te

  explicit : (111r) prestari cupio deus qui regnas in trinitate in secula seculorum. Amen

  Note : ff. 111v, 112r-112v blank

  
  

  113r-154v - Ten vices and their corresponding virtues || De superbia, humilitate, cenodoxia, timore Domini, inobedientia, obedientia, invidia, caritate, ira, patientia, mala tristitia, bona tristitia, philargiria, contemptu mundi, castrimargia, jejunio et elemosina, multiloquio, et mendacio, taciturnitate, luxuria, castitate

  rubric : (113r) De superbia

  incipit : (113r) Radix cuncti mali superbia est

  rubric : (115r) De humilitate

  incipit : (115r) Quia per superbiam cecidimus

  rubric : (116r) De cenodoxia

  rubric : (118r) De timore domini

  rubric : (119r) De inobedientia

  rubric : (120v) De obedientia

  rubric : (122r) De inuidia

  rubric : (124r) De caritate

  rubric : (129r) De ira

  rubric : (130v) De patientia

  rubric : (134r) De mala tristitia

  rubric : (136r) De bona tristitia

  rubric : (137r) De philargiria

  rubric : (139r) De contemptu mundi

  rubric : (142v) De castrimargia

  rubric : (144v) De ieiunio et elemosina

  rubric : (136v) De multiloquio et mendacio

  rubric : (149r) De taciturnitate

  rubric : (151r) De luxuria

  rubric : (152v) De castitate

  Note : Ends

  explicit : (154r) quam pro pietate hospitio receperat

  Note : This tract is called in the old catalogue quedam sentencie de viciis et virtutibus

  Note : On f. 154v later (xiv): Omnipotens sempiterne deus ignosce deprecantibus parce metuentibus