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Bod-Inc: B-178

Bernardus Claravallensis

Flores.

 

Analysis of Content

.j.2r ‘Tabula secundum alphabetum'.

.j.5r Incipit: ‘Bernardi flores faciunt animam redolere | Per sanctos mores cum vult peccata dolere'; 2 hexameters (versus collaterales).

.j.5v ‘Quando beatus Bernardus intrauit Cistertium'. Incipit: ‘[A]nno milleno centeno cum duodeno | Uno coniuncto numeri non exule puncto'; 40 leonine hexameters, all but the first couple are versus collaterales. See Jean Leclercq, Études sur saint Bernard et le texte de ses écrits, Analecta sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis, 9 (Rome, 1953), 180, note 1.

.j.6r ‘Nota de claustro'. Incipit: ‘Claustrum nolenti mors est, sed vita volenti. | Claustrum claustrales reddit quasi spirituales'; 16 leonine hexameters, all starting with the word ‘claustrum'.

.j.6r ‘Quando beatus Bernardus factus est abbas'. Incipit: ‘[A]nnus millenus ter quinus connumeratur | Nec non centenus, vir sanctus quando creatur'; 8 hexameters (versus collaterales). See Leclercq, Études sur saint Bernard, 180, note 1.

.j.6r ‘Quanto tempore vixit abbas'. Incipit: ‘[A]nnis terdenis octo, sed non sine penis | Hanc vallem rexit, multos ad sidera vexit'; 21 leonine hexameters. See Leclercq, Études sur saint Bernard, 180, note 1.

.j.6v Incipit: ‘[A]nnos sex decies et tres etatis habebat | Celi quando quies hunc a mundo rapiebat; 8 hexameters (versus collaterales). See Leclercq, Études sur saint Bernard, 180, note 1.

.j.6v ‘Bona metra de sancto Bernardo'. Incipit: ‘[M]ira loquar, sed digna fide, Bernarde, quid est hoc? | Uiuis adhuc? Viuo. Non es, rogo, mortuus? Imo'; 16 hexameters, the last one incomplete. See Leclercq, Études sur saint Bernard, 180, note 1.

.j.6v Incipit: ‘O pater alborum, dux et rector monachorum, | Consors sanctorum, duc nos ad regna polorum'; 2 hexameters (versus unisoni).

.j.6v Incipit: ‘[A]nno milleno centeno quo minus vno | A Christo nato, tunc cepit griseus ordo'; 2 hexameters.

a2r ‘Relatio de beato Bernardo abbate'. Incipit: ‘[B]ernardus egregius Cisterciensis ordinis propagator, qui iniciatus est anno dominice incarnationis millesimo nonagesimo octauo . . .’

a2r Incipit: ‘Pax est in verbis id odoriferis opus herbis | Nempe gerit flores Bernardi nobiliores'; 2 leonine hexameters. Studien und Mitteilungen zur Geschichte des Benediktiner-Ordens, 64 (1952), 234-41.

a2v [Guilelmus de Sancto Martino Tornacensi]: ‘Prologus'.’ Incipit: ‘[C]um enim non essem alicui exercitio magnopere occupatus . . .’ See B‑177.

a3r ‘Annotatio capitulorum'.

a3v Incipit: ‘Fragrat Bernhardus sacer in dictis quasi nardus | E quibus hic tractus liber est in scripta redactus'; 2 leonine hexameters.

a3v Bernardus [Claravallensis]: Flores. ‘Liber primus exceptionum collectarum de diuersis opusculis beati Bernardi egregii Clareuallensis abbatis'.’ Incipit: ‘[Q]uid est Deus? Qui est? Merito quidem nil competencius eternitati . . .’ Table of contents preceding each book.

v4r Bernardus Claravallensis: ‘De quibusdam sermonibus venerabilis patris Bernardi, in quibus continentur verba quedam melliflua de beatissima Dei genitrice Maria'.’ Incipit: ‘[N]on est, quod me magis delectet . . .’ See B‑177.

Imprint

Imprint: Cologne: Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, 14[82]. Folio.

Collation

Collation: .j.6 a–q8 r s6 t v8.

References

ISTC: ib00389000

GW: GW 3929;

Hain: HC *2926;

Goff: Goff B‑389;

Proctor: Pr 1058;

Others: Oates 540; Sack, Freiburg, 566; Sheppard 801; Voulliéme, Köln, 231.

LCN: 13931479

Copies

Copy number: B-178(1)

Wanting the blank leaves .j.1, a1, and v8.

Binding: Nineteenth-century half brown morocco; endpapers probably older Netherlandish, watermarked with the Maid of Holland and crowned GR.

Size: 320 × 225 × 27 mm.

Size of leaf: 287 × 207 mm.

On a2r: ‘Flagrat(!) Bernardus sacer in dictis quasi nardus | E quibus hic tractus liber est in scripta redactus' added in red in a contemporary hand. On a2v the same hand added a heading ascribing the Prologus to Guilhelmus monachus sancti Martini Tornacensis. The arabic figures 82 have been added to the printed date ‘M.cccc.', probably in the printing-shop see GW (Anm.)

Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red, principal initials with reserved white decoration; red capital strokes and underlining.

Provenance: Purchased from Joseph Baer & Co., 143. Lager-Catalog (1884), no. 157, for 6 Marks; see Library Bills 17 May 1884.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 4Q 4.28.


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