Table Of ContentA SUPPLEMENT
TO MORTON W. BLOOMFIELD ET AL.
INSTRVMENTA PATRISTICA ET MEDIAEVALIA
Research onthe Inheritance of Earlyand Medieval Christianity
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RICHARD NEWHAUSER ISTVAŁ N BEJCZY
A SUPPLEMENT
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INCIPITS OF LATIN WORKS ON THE VIRTUES AND VICES,
1100-1500 A.D.
BREPOLS
2008
INSTRVMENTA PATRISTICA ET MEDIAEVALIA
Research onthe Inheritance of Earlyand Medieval Christianity
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
ABBREVIATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
a. Works Cited . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
b. Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
c. General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
CORRECTIONS, SUPPLEMENTS, DELETIONS, AND
ADDITIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
INDICES
a. Index of Libraries and Manuscripts . . . . . 371
b. Index of Names . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
c. Index of Titles . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
INTRODUCTION
Those who have had occasion to use the list of incipits published
in 1979 by Morton Bloomfield, Bertrand-Georges Guyot, Donald
Howard, and Thyra Kabealo will understand the rewards and frus-
trations of working with the first 6553 entries of this bibliographic
tool that are focused on Latin works on the vices and virtues.1 One
can readily admit that there exists at present no better finding list
and general bibliographic guide to the transmission of works of mor-
al theology composed in Latin in the High and late Middle Ages
than that assembled by Professor Bloomfield and his colleagues.
To be sure, its entries sometimes overlap with other specialized
catalogues that appeared prior to Incipits, and anumber that were
published subsequent to it, namely those dealing with aparticular
genre (e.g., Michaud-Quantin), or with asingle author (e.g., Distel-
brink; Gianazza; Goering, WM; Goy; etc.), or with authors of asin-
gle ecclesiastical order (e.g., Kaeppeli, Mohan), or with authors who
wrote (cid:150) or with manuscripts preserved(cid:150) in asingle geographical lo-
cation (e.g., Newhauser, CH; Sharpe). Although most of these cata-
logues are more accurate and precise in their own limited fields
than Incipits, none of them covers as wide arange of texts dealing
with the vices and virtues and related matters as that included in
the incipitarium by Bloomfield et al. Nevertheless, one cannot say
that this bibliographic tool presents information in away that
makes it optimally useful to researchers interested in identifying
texts in manuscripts or in following the history of aknown text(cid:146)s
transmission. As many of the reviews of Incipits noted at the time
of its publication, the numerous inaccuracies and inconsistencies in
the treatment of the texts and sources contained in Incipits will
force every reader to evaluate its information with caution.2
1 The bibliography as awhole is referred to here as Incipits, but our study
does not concern the better-organized second section dealing with treatises on
the Pater Noster, with entries numbered 8001-9261; for abbreviations of the
works cited in our study, see below, 00-00.
2 See KB; Newhauser, Rev; and, though it deals with the preliminary form of
the longer list, RAG; see also more recently Titulus, 38-40.
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In effect, Incipits is neither completely comprehensive, nor can it
be considered particularly consistent. Although it is generally lim-
ited to the period between 1100 and 1500, works by Isidore of Se-
ville, or Defensor(cid:146)s(?) Liber scintillarum, among others, are found in
its pages. On the other hand, other early-medieval texts that were
important influences on moral theology in the High and late Middle
Ages are not mentioned at all, including Gregory the Great(cid:146)s Mo-
ralia in Iob, or the Admonitio S. Basilii ad filium spiritualem. Even
in the period which is covered in the High and late Middle Ages,
numerous works are included which are not important for the trans-
mission of information on the vices and virtues,3 while other trea-
tises important for moral theology are missing from the list,
though they are by no means limited in their transmission and thus
might be expected to have aplace in acatalogue of this scope: Ber-
nard of Clairvaux, Sententiae, 3.89 (De septem vitiis principalibus)
and 3.98 (De septem vitiis), for example, or William Peraldus, De
eruditione principum, among others.
Those texts which are included in the catalogue are not infre-
quently treated in inconsistent and misleading ways. Thus, awork
transmitted uniquely in Cambridge, Corpus Christi Col. MS521 is
found listed in Incipits in three separate entries, two of which mis-
represent the incipit;4 and one can also discover five sections of the
Summa (cid:145)(cid:145)Qui bene presunt(cid:146)(cid:146) (Incipits 4583) listed separately from
Cambridge, Gonville and Caius Col. MS211/226 as if they were in-
dependent and uniquely transmitted works, although the Summa is
listed correctly in its entirety from this MS by Bloomfield et al.5
Entry 0740 gives the impression of collecting two works under the
same incipit, though the Munich manuscript actually contains adif-
ferent text than what is listed in this entry, namely Ps.-Hugh of St.
Victor (Ps.-Bernard of Clairvaux), Tractatus de statu virtutum.6 The
treatment of Hugh Ripelin of Strasbourg(cid:146)s Compendium theologicae
veritatis (Incipits 6399) demonstrates that in their method of proce-
dure, Bloomfield and his colleagues apparently overlooked entire li-
braries in the search for witnesses of some texts, even of very well-
known works included in the catalogue, for manuscripts of Hugh(cid:146)s
3 See below, Newhauser-Bejczy 0449, 0733, 0949, and 4312, for example.
4 See below, Newhauser-Bejczy 0739, 1020, and 5278.
5 See below, Newhauser-Bejczy 0168, 1382, 1446, 1827, and 3000.
6 For the text in the Munich manuscript, see below, Newhauser-Bejczy 0741a.
