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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...

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This section contains a work on the Virtues and Vices. It begins on f.130r with the words Querenda sunt tria de confessione and ends on f. 166r with immortalitatis gloria.

Writing

This section is written in the same hand as the previous sections. It is late 13th-century Gothic.

Contents This section of the manuscript contains the Formula vitae honestae (Rules for an Honest Life) by Martin of Braga. It was originally written in the 6th century, in what is now Portugal, and is about the Four Cardinal Virtues.It is titled Incipit libellus martini episcopi ad mironem regem gallicie and begins on f.30r with the words Gloriosissimo ac...

Scope and Contents This section contains 'Imago Vite Eterne, 'Image of Eternal Life' by Saint Bonaventure. The prologue (f. 204r-v) starts and ends with the words 'Flecto genua mea ad patrem — finis et contemplamentum', and the text itself starts with 'Die queso, O homo on f. 205r. It ends with 'Qui est trinus et unus deus benedictus in sec. sec. Amen. Explicit liber venerabilis doctoris...

Contents This part of the manuscript contains a treatise on virtues and vices usually known as De Virtutibus or by the longer title De virtutibus et Vitiis ad Arnaldum Pariacensem Canonicum. However, the text is called Salutatio in this manuscript. It was written by Albuinus Eremita, also known as Albuinus Presbyter, who was active around the 10th and 11th centuries in France....

Contents This section contains a work on the Virtues and Vices that is titled Qualis confessor debet esse vide in tuis versibus et ultra. It starts on f. 183r with the words Confessio dulcis affabilis atque suavis and ends on f. 192v with ad superiores debent mitti. Writing This section is written in the same hand as the previous section, but differs...

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This section (ff.258r-294r) contains an unidentified text on the Virtues, and other sermons, in various hands.