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Bernardus Claravallensis

Epistolae.

 

Analysis of Content

[a1r] ‘Tabula epistolarum'.

[b1r] [Guilelmus, Abbas Sancti Theoderici: Sancti Bernardi vita prima, liber I, cap. XI: Miraculum de prima epistola.] PL CLXXXV 255-6 no. 50.

[b1r] Bernardus Claravallensis: Epistolae. PL CLXXXII 68-514, 578-80, and 623; Bernardus, Opera, VII 1-402; VIII 1-230, 335-7, and 398-9. The penultimate letter also printed in Bernardus, Éloge de la nouvelle chevalerie. Vie de saint Malachie. Épitaphe, Hymne, Lettres, ed. Pierre-Yves Émery, Sources chrétiennes, 367 (Paris, 1990), 400-6. On authorship see Glorieux, Migne, 70. 295 letters, letter 77 counted twice in the tabula. Corpus epistolarum nos 1-44, 77, 45-76, 77 (incipit only), 78-121 (including letter 84^bis), 124-6, 255, 127-41, 254, 142-91, 195-6, 192-3, 197-8, 310; [poem and first distich as described below]; 199-200; [second distich]; 201-28, 231-2, 230, 233-52, 122-3, 256-66, 268-71, 267, 272-85, 288-9, 291-6, 253, 290; ‘Epistolae extra corpus, series antiqua' nos 374 and 415. Wanting letters 194, 229, 286-7, 297-309 of the ‘Corpus epistolarum'.

[g10r] ‘Narratio pulcra metrica et dragmatica(!) de santo Bernardo abbate'. [Elsewhere entitled Bona metra de sancto Bernardo.] Incipit: ‘[M]ira loquar, sed digna fide, Bernarde, quid hoc est? | Viuis adhuc? Viuo. Non es, rogo, mortuus? Immo'; 16 hexameters, the last one incomplete.

[g10r] Incipit: ‘Lactis virginei ros infusus faciei | Bernardi dat ei lactea verba Dei'; 1 distich (versus unisoni).

[g10v] Incipit: ‘O Bernarde pater, hic dulcia qui posuisti | Fac me, qui scripsi, regnum conscendere Christi'; 1 distich (versus caudati).

[k1r] Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-: Meditationes de interiori homine, cap. 15.] ‘De miseria et breuitate huius vite et de vera s[apien]cia'. PL CLXXXIV 506-8. On authorship see Glorieux, Migne, 71.

[k1r] Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-]: ‘De temptationibus et ocio'. Incipit: ‘[S]eruum Dei gratis Deo seruientem non cessant sollicitare vicia . . .’ See Hauréau V 111^v.

[k1v] Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-]: ‘De bona et mala voluntate'. Incipit: ‘[O]mnia genera viciorum ex aliquo [modo?] male consuetudinis . . .’ See Hauréau IV 214^r.

[k1v] Bernardus Claravallensis [pseudo-; Arnulphus de Boeriis: Speculum monachorum.] ‘Speculum . . . super emendatione vite hominis religiosi'. PL CLXXXIV 1175-8 (the last paragraph is not present in the incunable edition). On authorship see Glorieux, Migne, 73.

[k2r] Bernardus Claravallensis: ‘De gratia et libero arbitrio' [addressed to] Guilelmus, abbas Sancti Theoderici. PL CLXXXII 1001-30; Bernardus, Opera, III 165-203.

[k7r] Bernardus Claravallensis: ‘Apologia . . . ad Cluniacenses de concordia ordinum siue excusatio eius ad eosdem' [addressed to] Guilelmus, abbas Sancti Theoderici. PL CLXXXII 898-918; Bernardus, Opera, III 81-108.

Imprint

Imprint: [Strasbourg: Heinrich Eggestein, not after 1474]. Folio.

Collation

Collation: [a⁴ b–e¹⁰ f⁸ g h¹⁰ i⁸ k¹⁰].

References

ISTC: ib00383000

GW: GW 3923;

Hain: H *2870;

Goff: Goff B‑383;

BMC: BMC I 71;

Proctor: Pr 285;

Others: BSB‑Ink B‑310; CIBN B‑259; Hillard 327; Sack, Freiburg, 562; Sheppard 194.

LCN: 14004736

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