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Bod-Inc: B-179

Bernardus Claravallensis

Flores.

 

Analysis of Content

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.

A2v [Guilelmus de Sancto Martino Tornacensi]: ‘Prologus'. Incipit: ‘[C]um enim non essem alicui exercitio magnopere occupatus . . .’ See B‑177.

A2v ‘Annotatio capitulorum'.

A3r Incipit: ‘Fragrat Bernardus sacer in dictis quasi nardus | E quibus hic tractus liber est in scripta redactus'; 2 leonine hexameters.

A3r Bernardus Claravallensis: Flores. ‘Liber primus florum siue excerptionum 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.

o4r Bernardus Claravallensis: ‘De beatissima virgine Dei genitrice 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.

o6v [Colophon.]

o6v Incipit: ‘Florida melliflui Bernardi prata peragrans | Hinc tibi nectareas collige, lector, opes'; 1 elegiac distich.

p1r ‘Tabula alphabetica'.

Imprint

Imprint: Paris: Philippe Pigouchet, for himself and Durand Gerlier (or Jean Petit), 20 Nov. 1[4]99. 8°.

Remarks: The colophon reads: ‘1099. xij. calendas Decembris'.

Collation

Collation: A b–o8 p4. GW omits last gathering.

References

ISTC: ib00390000

GW: GW 3930;

Hain: HC 8220; C 992;

Goff: Goff B‑390;

BMC: BMC VIII 120;

Proctor: Pr 8198;

Others: Sheppard 6316.

LCN: 13931569

Copies

Copy number: B-179(1)

Wanting p2, 3, 4 and the blank leaf o8.

Leaf p1 is bound after A1 and mounted at the foot.

Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter calf; marbled pastedowns.

Size: 188 × 128 × 20 mm.

Size of leaf: 180 × 117 mm.

Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red.

Provenance: Paris, St Martin-des-Champs, Cluniacs; on p1: ‘Bibliothecæ S. Martini'. Probably acquired after 1738; not in Fysher, Catalogus.

SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 6.64.


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