Language(s): Latin
Extracts from St Bernard:
(fol. 1r-v)
Bernard of Clairvaux,
In conuersione sancti Pauli, sermo 1 (ex sermonibus de sanctis) (extract, cc. 2–5) 1. (fols. 3ra-22vb)
Bernard of Clairvaux,
De diligendo Deo Rubric: Prologus beati Berhardi[sic] in librum de diligendo Deum.
Incipit: Viro illustri Domino aimerico ecclesie romane dyacono
Final rubric: Explicit liber de diligendo deum.
Marginal note, f. 3r: ‘Iste liber fuit correctus in Clarevalle’.
2. (fols. 22vb-49rb)
Bernard of Clairvaux,
De praecepto et dispensatione Incipit: Domino abbati columbensi Frater B(ernardus)
Rubric: (fol. 23rb) Incipit liber de precepto et dispensatione
Incipit: Qua mente iam tacebo?
Explicit: et studui satisfacere uoluntati.
Final rubric: Explicit liber de precepto et dispensatioine.
Marginal note, f. 23r: ‘Iste liber fuit perlectus et correctus in Crista’.
3. (fols. 49rb-70b verso)
Bernard of Clairvaux,
De gratia et libero arbitrio Rubric: Incipit prologus beati bernardi ad dominum W. abbatem
Incipit: (prologue) Domino W. abbati sancti theoderici Frater Bernardi. Opusculum de gratia et libero arbitrio
Rubric: De libero arbitrio hominis
Incipit: (text) Loquente me coram aliquando
Explicit: non quos iustos inuenit hos et magnificauit.
Final rubric: Explicit de libro[sic] arbitrio
Marginal note, f. 49r: ‘Iste liber fuit in Otkerburg perlectus et in Claravalle correctus’.
Fols. 69a and 70a are added small sheets supplying text omitted by the original scribe.
4. (fols. 71ra-129ra)
Bernard of Clairvaux,
De consideratione Rubric: Incipit liber primus sancti bernardi abbatis clareuallis de consideracione ad eugenium papam
Incipit: Subit animum dictare aliquid quod te papa beatissime
Explicit: sed non querendi.
Final rubric: Explicit liber quintus domini bernardi abbatis ad Eugenium papam de consideracione.
5. (fols. 129ra-171va)
William of Saint-Thierry,
Epistola ad fratres de Monte Dei Rubric: Incipit prefatio epistole beati bernardi ad fratres de monte dei
Dominis et fratribus B. priori H. et W. sabbatum delicatum. Pene impudenter Rubric: Incipit epistola
Incipit: (text) Fratribus de monte dei orientale lumen et antiquum illum in religione
Explicit: secretum meum michi
Final rubric: Explicit epistola beati Bernardi abbatis ad fratres de Monte Dei
6. (fols. 171va-192ra)
Johannes de Fruttuaria (Ps.-Bernard),
De ordine vitae et morum institutione Rubric: Incipit tractatus beati bernardi abbatis de uite ordine et morum institutione
Incipit: Hortatur quidem timidam mentis mee imperitiam
Explicit: flebilis supplexque tu ora hoc modo.
Final rubric: Explicit tractatus beati Bernardi abbatis de ordine vite et morum institutione.
(fol. 192rb)
Hymn Incipit: Mater patris et filia miserorum leticia
Chevalier 11349, , Anal. Hymn. 45.26; addition, 15th century (?).
Fols. 192v-200v ruled but blank.
Origin: 14th century, 1st half ;
German Provenance and Acquisition
Clairvaux Abbey: marginal notes show that parts of the manuscript were corrected there, fols. 3r, 49r.
La Crête Abbey: marginal notes show that a part of the manuscript was examined and corrected there, fol. 23r.
Otterberg Abbey: marginal notes show that a part of the manuscript was examined there, fol. 49r. The manuscript might have entered Eberbach from its daughterhouse in Otterberg.
Identifiable as H 18 in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502.
William Laud, 1573–1645, 1638.
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
