Slimdlin, Sigfrid, fl 1464-1466 (Benedictine monk and scribe)

Person

Dates

Existence: fl 1464 - 1466

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Composite manuscript containing fifteen texts, 15th century

Item

Identifier: MS 78

Contents Contains fourteen texts, a number of which have been written by Brother Sigfrid Slimdlin.ff. 1r-49r: 'De venerabili sacramento altaris' ('On the venerable sacrament of the altar').f. 49v: Alphabet poem.ff. 50r-51v: Blank folios.ff. 52r-54v: Capitula of 'Bonum universale de Apibus' by Thomas of Cantimpré (followed by an excerpt from the same work).ff. 55r-61r: Two excerpts on bees from 'De proprietatibus rerum' by Bartholomaeus...

Dates: 15th century

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts

Religious work by Sigfridus Slimdlin(?), 15th century

part

Identifier: MS 78/ff. 104v-108v

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...