Bod-Inc: B-209
Bernardus Claravallensis
Speculum de honestate vitae, et al.
Analysis of Content
[a1r] Bernardus [Claravallensis, pseudo-; Bernardus Silvestris(?)]: Speculum de honestate vitae. [Also known as Formula honestae vitae.] Incipit: ‘[P]etis a me, fili et frater, quod nunquam et nusquam aliquem a suo prouisore audiui petisse . . .’ PL CLXXXIV 1167-82, but with slightly different incipit. On authorship see Glorieux, Migne, 73-4.
[a4v] Bernardus [Claravallensis, pseudo-]: ‘Octo puncta mediante quibus peruenitur ad perfectionem vite spiritualis'. PL CLXXXIV 1181-6. On authorship see Glorieux, Migne, 74.
Imprint
Imprint: [Cologne: Ulrich Zell, c.1475]. 4°.
Remarks: Dated by CIBN according to the state of the type; GW and Sheppard date [c.1473].
Collation
Collation: [a8].
References
ISTC: ib00442000
GW: GW 4072;
Hain: HC *2901;
Goff: Goff B‑442;
BMC: BMC I 193;
Proctor: Pr 885;
Others: BSB‑Ink B‑356; CIBN B‑311; Hillard 349; Oates 390; Sheppard 685-6; Voulliéme, Köln, 238.
LCN: 14005506
Copies
Copy number: B-209(1)
Bound with A‑026(1); see there for details of binding and provenance.
Size of leaf: 193 × 135 mm.
Occasional marginal notes in a seventeenth-century hand, also found in other items in the volume.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 7.2(3).
Copy number: B-209(2)
Binding: Nineteenth-century paper boards; bound for Kloß.
Size: 214 × 150 × 5 mm.
Size of leaf: 212 × 145 mm.
Early marginal notes.
Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes and underlining.
Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label; see sale (1835), lot 617. J. T. Hand (fl. 1834-1837), 1836; inscription on front pastedown; sale (1837), lot 71; purchased for £0. 1. 0; see Books Purchased (1837), 5.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 7Q 4.41.
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