Images: Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Physical description: parchment, 220 × 145 mm, 236 fols., 1 col.
Language: Latin
Date: 1389–1393 (fols. 11v, 101v, 151v)
Provenance: San Francesco Grande (Milan)
Contents:
Passion of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (Ps.-Marcellus) (fols. 2r–3r)
Passion of John, by Pseudo-Melito (fols. 12r–17v)
Passion of James, Son of Zebedee (fols. 18r–20r)
Passion of Bartholomew (fols. 71r–74v)
Life and Martyrdom of Stephen (fols. 84r–85r)
Life of Martha of Bethany (fols. 111r–113r)
Acts of Nereus and Achilleus (fols. 153r–158r)
Additional contents: various martyrdoms (84 texts in total).
Catalogs:
Ferrari, Mirella. “Libri ‘moderni’ e libri ‘antiqui’ nella biblioteca di San Francesco Grande di Milano.” Pages 187–241 in Medioevo e latinità in memoria di Ezio Franceschini. Edited by Annamaria Ambrosioni. Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 1993 (p. 235).
______. “Per una storia delle biblioteche francescane a Milano nel Medioevo e nell’Umanesimo.” Archivum franciscanum historicum 72 (1979): 429–64 (p. 437).
Pedralli, Monica. Novo, grande, coverto e ferrato. Gli inventari di biblioteca e la cultura a Milano nel Quattrocentro. Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 2002 (p. 432).
Other online databases: Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University, 22 July 2026.
