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AMBROSIUS AUTPERTUS.
AMBROSIUS AUTPERTUS, a French Benedictine Monk, and Abbot of S. Vin∣cent, [a Monastery situate near the head of the River Volternus,] Died about the Year 778. His Writings are honourable cited by Paulus Diaconus, in his History of the Lombards, and the Author of the Chronology of this Abby wrote his Life, and made a Catalogue of his Writings. We have a great Commentary of his upon the Revelation, in which he puts a Moral Sense upon all that is said in that Book. F. Labbe says, That there are also some Commentaries of Ambrose on the Psalms, and the Song of Songs, Printed at Cologn in 1536. But F. Oudin, who did both seek himself, and got others carefully to seek for those Works, declareth, he could not find them. The Book of the Conflict of Vertues and Vices, which was among S. Austin's Works, and which bears Ambrose's Name in some Manuscripts, is this Author's; he wrote a Tract of Concupiscence, which is found Manuscript in Bennet's Col∣lege Library of Cambridge. He made the Lives of the Saints Paldon, Tuton, and Vason, the first Abbots of S. Benedict of Volternus which are so much the better, because he hath only represented their Vertues, without relating any Miracles. He hath composed several Works, and some are found in Manuscripts under his Name, and others are Printed under other Author's Names. There is one upon our Saviour's Transfiguration, which is at the end of his Commentary upon the Revelation, in a Manuscript of the Abby of S. German-des-Prez. He hath made one on the Virgin's Assumption, which was the 18th among S. Austin's Ser∣mons upon the Saints. There is one upon the Purification, Printed among the Sermons, at∣tributed to S. Ambrose, which is found inserted in an Homily upon the same Festival, made by Alcuin.