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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