La « mémoire textuelle » d’Ambroise de Milan en Italie : manuscrits, centres de diffusion, voies de transmission (ve-xiie siècle)

This paper intends to give a status quaestionis and some suggestions for future research about the circulation of Ambrose’s texts in medieval Italy. It deals in chronological sequence with the Ambrosian “textual memory”. From Late Antiquity to XIIth century, three periods can be distinguished: from Vth to VIIIth century, characterized by a scarse manuscript documentation, the Carolingian Renaissance and its rediscovery of Ambrose’s texts, the XIth and XIIth centuries and the building up of great collections. Annexes add a hopefully comprehensive list of ambrosian manuscripts from Vth to IXth century