Flores Bernardi
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Description
- Title
- Flores Bernardi
- Creator
- William of Tournai
- Published / Created
- [between 1275 and 1300]
- Publication Place
- France
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment of William of Tournai, Flores Bernardi. Text supplied on f. 10v in the second half of the 15th century. With excerpts from St. Bernard (?) on the Virgin Mary
- Description
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In Latin.
Script: Written in compact gothic script with numerous corrections and notes in contemporary and later hands, 13th-15th centuries.
Decorative initials, divided red and blue, 3-line, with extensive penwork designs and cascades also in red and blue, for the beginning of each book of art. 5 and for art. 6. Simple initials, red or blue, 2-line, with penwork designs of the opposite color throughout the codex. Running titles (e.g., FLO. B. I) in red and blue; headings, chapter numbers, and underlining, in red.
Outer column of f. 140 cut off; no loss of text.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Limp vellum case with two ties and two black, gold-tooled labels: "Flores ex operibus B. Bernardi" and "M. S. XIII-XIV C." Wound, caught-up sewing, wound endbands, and vellum lining on the spine between sewing supports. On front and back flyleaves: Deed, in Latin, dated 26 March 1450, issued by Antonius Longobardus [several letters or words lost in binding] neapolis Reginalis ad contractus Iudex. The document was cut in half and trimmed to serve originally as pastedowns; considerable loss of text. - Provenance
- Purchased from the private collector Laurence Taylor Greer in April 1964 by H. P. Kraus, who presented it to the Beinecke Library in 1968.
- Extent
- ff. i + 140 + i : 205 x 145 (159 x 102) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been partially digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 376
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Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval France 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
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Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153.
William of Tournai. - Subject (Topic)
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Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval
Theology - Subjects
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Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153
William of Tournai
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Theology > Early works to 1800
France > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
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- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- William of Tournai, Flores Bernardi. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9780743
- Object ID (OID)
- 2042290
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