Virtues
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Conflictus vitiorum atque virtutum by Ambrosius Autpertus, 15th century
part
Identifier: MS 108/ff. 71r-80r
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...
Dates:
15th century
De Confessione, Contritione, 13th-14th century
part
Identifier: MS 107/ff. 130r-166r
Contents
Writing
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.
Dates:
13th-14th century
Imago Vite Eterne by Saint Bonaventure
Part
Identifier: MS 113/ff. 204r-231v
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...
Dates:
c 1444-1445
MS 93: Collection of didactic, pastoral, and meditative devotional treatises, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 93
Contents
This manuscript dates from the first half of the 15th century, and is a collection of didactic, pastoral, and meditative devotional treatises, as well as some fragments of works by late 14th-century English theologian, John Wycliffe. Generally, devotional texts were an important element of medieval piety, as they provided guidance for individuals to deepen their faith through study, meditation and prayer. This volume is perhaps best described as a medieval instructional manual....
Dates:
15th century
Salutatio by Albuinus Eremita or Presbyter, aslo known as De Virtutibus, 12th century
part
Identifier: MS 89/ff. 1r-63v
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....
Dates:
12th century
Summa de Confessione, 14th century
part
Identifier: MS 107/ff. 183r-192v
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...
Dates:
14th century
Unidentified text on the Virtues and other sermons, c 1455
Part
Identifier: MS 138/ff. 258r-294r
Contents
This section (ff.258r-294r) contains an unidentified text on the Virtues, and other sermons, in various hands.
Dates:
c 1455