This volume advances the utility of Morton W. Bloomfield et al.,
Incipits of Latin Works on the Virtues and Vices, 1100-1500 A.D.
(1979) by correcting, supplementing, adding to, or deleting
information in this commonly-used reference guide to medieval Latin
manuscripts of an ethical or pastoral character. Careful
attention is paid to updating the identification of texts and their
authorship and references to critical editions of works on the
vices and virtues. Many new manuscript witnesses and over 500
new texts are added to those found in the earlier catalogue and a
number of short texts on vices and virtues are edited here for the
first time.
Richard Newhauser, Arizona State University-Tempe, is the author
of Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages
(2007) and editor of The Seven Deadly Sins: From Communities to
Individuals (2005) and In the Garden of Evil: The Vices and Culture
in the Middle Ages (2005)
István Bejczy is the author of The Cardinal Virtues in
the Middle Ages: A Study in Western Moral Thought from the Fourth
to the Fourteenth Centuries (forthcoming) and editor of several
volumes of articles on medieval virtue ethics