València, Arxiu Capitular, Ms. 64

1ra-159rb, Ambrosius Autpertus - Expositio in Apocalypsin

Here Books I–X: OLMOS Y CANALDA 1927–1928; OLMOS Y CANALDA 1943, p. 56; WEBER 1960, p. 532 n. 1; ERHART 2005, p. 76; VALTORTA 2006, p. 11 sq., here p. 11; PÉREZ Y GIMÉNEZ 2018, p. 105 (figure of fol. 1r) and p. 107–109 with n. 33. The manuscript is not mentioned by STEGMÜLLER 1950b, p. 95 no 1274; WINANDY 1950, p. 96 sq.; WINANDY 1953; WEBER 1975, p. XI–XVI; STEGMÜLLER/REINHARDT 1976, p. 293 no 1274. The manuscript was the first part of a larger manuscript belonging to the papal library of Benedict XIII, where it is mentioned under the no 327 in the inventory of the great library from 1423: “Item, alius liber, in quo Ambrosius ‘Super Apocalipsim’ et Ricardus ‘Super eundem’, ‘Postillla super Cantica’ et ‘Liber Esdre et Nemie’, libri eiusdem Bede ‘De gestis angelorum’ [!] et Bede, ‘Super Tobiam’, Augustinus ‘Ad Simplicianum’, Augustinus ‘De fide catolica’, ‘De cognicione vere vite’, cum copertis de corio viridi. Et incipit in secundo colondello secundi folii ‘specialiter’ et finit in eodem ‘suffure’”, ed. SERRANO I CALDERÓ/PERARNAU I ESPELT 1987, p. 81 no 327. The second part is also still preserved, today València, Arxiu Capitular, Ms. 59, and has on fol. 175rb the table of content of the whole original manuscript with the following beginning: “¶ In hoc volumine continentur libri infrascripti Primo Ambrosius Aucpertus super apocalipsim . libri .X.”: PÉREZ Y GIMÉNEZ 2018, p. 108 (fig. of fol. 175r). Julián de Lobera y Valtierra (?–1435), bishop of Tarazona, cardenal and chaplan of Pope Benedict XIII, then bought the complete manuscript and brought it to València, where it was later divided and rebound in the two aforementioned manuscripts by José Bo in 1819: PÉREZ Y GIMÉNEZ 2012, p. 149.