Manuscript Summary:The manuscript contains Ambrose's treatise De officiis. A list of chapters (1r-3r, 65v-67r, 103v-104v) precedes each of the three books. The first two books are introduced by an artistic tendrilated initial on a dark-brown (3v) or red (67r) background. Rubricated lines and initials divide the rest of the text. The dedicatory poem on 1r, in capitals filling two lines attests that the text is an offering of Abbot Frowin of Engelberg (1143-1178) to the monastery's patron saint Mary.(grd)
Standard description: P. Benedictus Gottwald, Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum qui asservantur in Bibliotheca Monasterii O.S.B. Engelbergensis in Helvetia, Freiburg im Breisgau 1891, p. 96.
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Additional description: Katalog der datierten Handschriften in der Schweiz in lateinischer Schrift vom Anfang des Mittelalters bis 1550, Bd. II: Die Handschriften der Bibliotheken Bern-Porrentruy, bearbeitet von Beat Matthias von Scarpatetti, Dietikon-Zürich 1983, Nr. 248, S. 91-92.
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Additional description: Bruckner Albert, Scriptoria Medii Aevi Helvetica 8, Schreibschulen der Diözese Konstanz, Stift Engelberg, Genf 1950, S. 122.
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Online Since: 10/04/2011
Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 65
Parchment · 136 ff. · 23.6 x 16.4 cm · Engelberg · 1143-1178
Tractatus sancti Ambrosii episcopi de officiis
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Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 65, Head – Tractatus sancti Ambrosii episcopi de officiis (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/bke/0065)
P. Benedictus Gottwald, Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum qui asservantur in Bibliotheca Monasterii O.S.B. Engelbergensis in Helvetia, Freiburg im Breisgau 1891, p. 96.
Date of origin: exaratus saeculo XII
Former shelfmark:
Olim signatus 4/19.
Extent:
Foliorum 136
Format: 236 : 164 mm.
Page layout:
lineis plenis
Decoration: Codex rubricatus est et litteris initialibus minio ductis ornatus. Insunt quoque duae maiores litterae ,Frowinianae' quas manus inhabilis resarciendo foedavit.
Contents:
Tractatus sancti Ambrosii
episcopi de officiis. Libri tres.
Singulis libris capitula praeposita sunt.
P. L. 16, 23-184.
Origin of the manuscript: Exaratus saeculo XII. sub b. Frowino abbate, quod docent versus sequentes fol. 1:
Ista tibi dona genitrix et virgo patrona
Froinum dantem serves apud omnitonantem.
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