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1. Opera varia, etc
- Creator:
- Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1300]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 122
- Image Count:
- 542
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (palimpsests of ecclesiastical documents, many leaves pieced and patched) of Bernard of Clairvaux, Collection of sermons, treatises, and letters. With works by Ogerius de Lucedio, David of Augsburg, O. F. M., Arnulfus de Boeriis, and Honorius Augustodunensis
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by multiple scribes in a small rounded gothic bookhand, below top line., Folios 1-50 have flourished initials, 3- to 2-line, alternating blue with red penwork designs and red with purple; two initials of better quality, divided red and blue, with red and purple flourishes (ff. 42r, 43v); many initials have harping designs. For remainder of manuscript uninspired red initials, either plain or with harping designs in brown ink. Rubrics, underlining and initial strokes, in red, throughout. Running headlines, in red, on ff. 1r-83r. Notes to rubricator in margins. Paragraph marks, red or blue., and Binding: Eighteenth century, France. Greenish brown goatskin gold-tooled. Gold-tooled panels and dark red gold-tooled label (damaged) on spine. Red edges.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153.
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Latin letters, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, Sermons, and Sermons, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Opera varia, etc
2. Sermons and homilies
- Creator:
- Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500?]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 769
- Image Count:
- 286
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Bernardus Claraevallensis (Bernard of Clairvaux, 1090-1153), 1) Sermones de diversis, nos. 1-32 and 40-42. 2) In psalmum XC sermones XVII. 3) Super "Missus est" homiliae (In laudibus Virginis matris).
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Two hands writing careful Gothic scripts: A (ff. 3r-71v) Cursiva Libraria; B (ff. 72r-136r) Hybrida Libraria., Paragraph marks and underlining in red. Red stroking of majuscules. Red plain initials (2-3 lines; 4 lines f. 3r, 7 lines f. 73r); red flourished initials with black penwork (9 lines, f. 72r, 7 lines and of a less careful execution f. 116v). All initials have guide letters in the margin., Most pages slightly damaged by the acid ink. Water stains at the bottom of the outer margins of the leaves in the final quires., and Binding: Original brown leather over heavy wooden boards, sewn on four split leather thongs; plaited leather headbands; spine missing. The covers are blind-tooled with frames and lozenges of triple fillets and the following stamps: a lare and a small lozenge-shaped fleur-de-lis; a large and a small rozette; a circular Pascal Lamb; a rectangular stamp with inscription "MARIA". Remnants of two brass clasps attached to the front board.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153.
- Subject (Topic):
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Sermons, Latin
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermons and homilies
3. Sermons, etc
- Creator:
- Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 377
- Image Count:
- 213
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, with parchment for outer and inner conjugate leaves of each quire, composed of four "booklets" or units of similar format. Part I: 1) William of St. Thierry, Epistola ad fratres de monte Dei, formerly attributed to Guigo and Bernard of Clairvaux. Part II: 2) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo in festo annuntiationis B. V. Mariae. 3) Bernard of Cluny [?], Sermo de villico iniquitatis, formerly attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux. 4) Bernard of Cluny, Preface to art. 3. Part III: 5) Bernard of Clairvaux, De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae. 6) Jean, l'Homme de Dieu, Tractatus de ordine vitae et morum institutione, formerly attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux. Part IV: 7) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo I pro Dom. VI post Pentecosten. 8) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo II pro Dom. VI post Pentecosten. 9) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo II pro Dom. VI post Pentecosten. 10) Anonymous sermon on the Virgin Mary. 11) Nicholas of Clairvaux, Sermo in natali S. Benedicti de euangelio. 12) Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo in obitu Domini Humberti
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: Part I: unidentified P in gutter. Parts II-IV: similar in design to Briquet Lettre Y 9182-84., Script: Part I (ff. 1-34): Written by a single scribe in well formed upright gothic script exhibiting batarde influence in the long descenders. Part II (ff. 35-46): Written in a script similar to that of Part I, but with less batarde shading. Part III (ff. 47-82): Written possibly by the same scribe as Part II. Part IV (ff. 83-99): Written in small cramped gothic script similar to those in I-III., Part I: Carefully executed red and blue divided initial, 8-line, on f. 1r; infilled and surrounded by delicate foliage designs in red and purple ink, on a green ground, with flourishes extending down inner border. Similar initial, f. 1v, without green ground and with blue scroll design for crossbar. Headings, paragraph marks, initial strokes, underlining, and Nota marks in red. Part II: Fine initial, 8-line, on f. 35r, divided red and blue, infilled and surrounded by six foliage designs in red penwork on green ground, with a central flower of six petals touched with yellow. Plain blue initial, 3-line, on f. 39v, with some floral designs in body in natural color of paper; red initials, 2-line, ff. 40r and 45v. Headings, initial strokes, underlining and corrections, in red. Paragraph marks in red or blue. Guide-letters for rubricator. Part III: Divided initial I, red and blue, 10-line, on f. 47r, with red and purple foliage designs on green ground surrounding initial, and with flourishes extending down inner margin. Blue initial, 4-line, on f. 68v, infilled and surrounded by penwork designs in red. Plain initials, 2-line, headings, initial strokes, paragraph marks, corrections, and some marginal notes, in red. Guide-letters and instructions for rubricator. Part IV: Blue initial, 5-line, on f. 83v, with interior floral designs in natural color of parchment; body infilled and surrounded by red penwork designs extending down inner margin. Initials, 5- to 2-line, headings, paragraph marks, in red., and Binding: 16th-17th centuries (?). Original sewing on four tawed, slit straps, the spine rounded and the supports prominent and defined. Plain, wound endbands on vegetable fiber cores, the covering leather saddle-stitched around them. Covered in dark brown calf with round and lozenge-shaped tools in diamonds and triangles formed by intersecting fillets in a central panel in a double outer frame. One fastening, the catch on the upper board and the strap wanting. Turk's head knot placemarks on the fore edge. Rectangular label removed from upper edge of front cover; two modern brown labels, stamped in gold, on spine: "Bernardi Varia" and "M. S." Original front pastedown: lower portion of a parchment bifolium (Germany, 15th century) of the Doctrinale of Alexander of Villa Dei with lines 1056-79 visible on verso and 1520-44 on recto. Ca. 5 mm. between lines of text. Binding restored.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153., Catholic Church, and Cistercians.
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, Sermons, and Theology
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sermons, etc
