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AMBROSIUS, SAINT Opera [ed. J. Amerbach, additions by J. de Lapide], vol. 1 (of 3), EDITIO PRINCEPS, [Basel, Johann Amerbach, 1492]
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AMBROSIUS, SAINT
Footnotes
Provenance: St. Michael's Abbey, Bamberg (former Benedictine monastery), inscribed on title "Ad Biblioteca Montii S. Mich[ael] Arch[angelus] O.S.B. [Ordo Sancti Benedicti] Bamberga" and on fol.2 "Montii S. Mich[ael] Archang[elus] Bamb[erg] O.S.B. [Ordo Sancti Benedicti]".
The manuscript leaves used as pastedowns were taken from a manuscript copy of the Liber ordinarius Hirsaugiensis, a monastic breviary, most probably already present in the Library of the Abbey in Bamberg when this volume was bound. For a similar manuscript of the same text, written in a very similar hand see the late fourteenth-/early-fifteenth century Codex 290 (183), today in the Oberösterreichischen Landesbibliothek in Linz. St. Michael's Abbey followed the Hirsau Reforms, which explains the reason they held copies of this version of the Liber ordinarius.
The pastedown leaves also bear small manuscript notations and an inscription in a near contemporary, but different hand, reading "anno millesimo quingentesimo primo" [1501].