Autpertus, Ambrosius, d 784

Scope and Contents Conceived as a series of exchanges between a vice and its opposite virtue, the text presents each vice inducing man to sin according to its particular nature, and each virtue contrasting this exhortation with moral advice, mostly taken from the Scriptures. The manuscript ascribes the text to Saint Ambrose (c. 340-397), Bishop of Milan and Doctor of the Church, but it has been variously attributed to Augustine of Hippo, Isidore of Seville and other authoritative Christian writers. The correct...

Contents This text seems to have been composed by the scribe himself by putting together passages from Christian theologians. It is written in the same hand of the previous treatise, which bears the name of Sigfrid Slimdlin. It begins with a long extract taken from Ambrose Autpertus' Conflictus vitiorum atque virtutum ('The Contest between Vices and Virtues'). In her catalogue, Catherine Borland entitles this work Tractatus de Radicibus...