Janus: St Ambrosius: Liber de Bono Mortis

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MS Add.3095	Collections of Irish historical and literary compositions, compiled for Sean Bhailis (John Walsh)
MS Add.31	St Ambrosius: Liber de Bono Mortis
MS Add.3100	Lectures on the satires of Juvenal, given at Gottingen
MS Add.3101	William Black: Biographical notes on eminent seventh-day baptists, and on other observers of the seventh-day sabbath
MS Add.3102	Commonplace book
MS Add.3103	'De philosohia Morali' and accounts kept by V. Hare
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St Ambrosius: Liber de Bono Mortis

Title	St Ambrosius: Liber de Bono Mortis
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.31
Creator	St Ambrosius
Extent and Medium	1 volume; paper
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

Extract from cap. 2; arms of the Wenman family; Dedication to Penelope, Lady Dynham; Pierre Du Moulin, Oppositions de la Parole de Dieu avec la Doctrine de l'Eglise romaine (trans. Bezaleel Sargeant - English trans. published 1610. French edition appeared 1637); 'Medicina Anime' and other additional matter, comprising: 'The manner of comforting the sick', two prayers, and extract from St Cyprian and St Chrysostom, respectively, translated from the Italian edition of Imagines Mortis, Lyons, 1549.

fo. 92: Latin epigram.

fo. 93: blank.

Inside front cover: 'B.d.2.18'.

Outside front cover: '26'.

Belonged to Samuel Knight DD, prebend of Ely and rector of Bluntisham, Hunts. After Knight's death in 1746, the MS. descended to John Percy Baumgartner of Milton, Cambs., who presented it to the Library in 1861.

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