Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.42

Other Form of the Shelfmark :
- London. Wellcome Collection, MS.42
- London. Wellcome Library, MS.42
- Londres. Wellcome Library, MS.42
- Wellcome Library, MS.42
Held at : Londres. Wellcome Library
Date of Origin :
- Early 14th Century
Composition :
- 1 volume; 9 leaves (last 3 blank). folio. 30 x 21 cm. Unbound.

Notes

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.
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
Purchased 1935.

For an account of this work, and its relation to the 'Hexaemeron' of St. Basilius of Caesarea [329?-379], cf. Thorndike History of Magic and Experimental Science, Vol. I, pp. 481 et seq.