Bod-Inc: B-177
Bernardus Claravallensis
Flores.
Analysis of Content
[a2r] [Guilelmus de Sancto Martino Tornacensi]: ‘Prologus'. Incipit: ‘[C]um enim non essem alicuius(!) exercicio magno opere occupatus . . .’ On authorship see Stegmüller, Repertorium biblicum, 1731/1 (+ supplement) and also Glorieux, Répertoire, I 130-1.
[a2v] Bernardus [Claravallensis]: Flores. Incipit: ‘[Q]uid est Deus? Qui est? Merito quidem nil competencius eternitati . . .’
[r1r] Bernardus Claravallensis: ‘Capitula subsequencia sunt de quibusdam sentenciis venerabilis patris beate Bernhardi, in quibus continentur verba quedam melliflua de beata Dei genitrice Maria'. Incipit: ‘[N]on est, quod me delectet magis . . .’ See Stegmüller, Repertorium biblicum, 1731,2.
[r4r] [Guilelmus de Sancto Martino Tornacensi]: ‘Versus'. Incipit: ‘Fragrat Bernhardus sacer in dictis quasi nardus | E quibus hic tractus liber est in scripta redactus'; 2 leonine hexameters. See Walther, Initia, 6829.
[s1r] ‘Capitula'.
Imprint
Imprint: [Nuremberg: Johann Sensenschmidt, not after 1470]. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a b10 c8 d6 e–i10 k8 l6 m–q10 r6 s8].
References
ISTC: ib00388000
GW: GW 3928;
Hain: H *2925;
Goff: Goff B‑388;
BMC: BMC II 403;
Proctor: Pr 1949;
Others: Sheppard 1383.
LCN: 13931524
Copies
Copy number: B-177(1)
Wanting the blank leaves [l6], [r5-6] and [s5-8].
Binding: Nineteenth-century German half calf.
Size: 337 × 245 × 42 mm.
Size of leaf: 327 × 227 mm.
On [a2r] a five-line initial is supplied in gold with pen-work infill in red and yellow and some pen-flourishing. Some principal initials are supplied in interlocked red and blue with pen-flourishing. Running headings, initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining.
Provenance: Lübeck, Stadtbibliothek; stamp and duplicate stamp. Purchased in 1864 for £0. 12. 0; see Invoice Book (1862-4, Library Records d. 430).
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 2.68.
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