Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 274: Ambrose or pseudo-Ambrose, Works on Virginity

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Title:
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 274: Ambrose or pseudo-Ambrose, Works on Virginity
Alternate Title:
Ambrosii quaedam
Language:
Latin
Extent:
ff. 154
Dimensions:
264 Height (mm) and 172 Width (mm)
Approximate Date:
[ca. 1000 - 1099]
Provenance:
This is from St Augustine's, Canterbury (Ancient Libraries, p. 231, no. 383), not, as I had thought, from Christ Church, though I have little doubt it was written there.
Table of contents:
  • De uirginibus
  • De uiduis
  • De lapsu virginis consecratae, ch. 1-8
  • De lapsu virginis conscratae, ch. 9
  • De lapsu virginis consecratae, ch. 10
  • Ten vices and their corresponding virtues
Description:
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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