Meditatio[n]es s[an]cti Bernardi abbatis vna cu[m] libello de interiori domo. Eiusde[m] Bernardi or[ati]ones deuotissime. Eius[dem] Bernardi de vite ordine. Eiusdem Bernardi speculu[m] de ho[n]estate vite. Eiusde[m] Bernardi: octo puncta media[n]tib[us] quibus puenitur ad p[er]fectione[m] vite spiritualis..
Bernard,of Clairvaux, Saint,1090 or 1091-1153.
Bernard Silvestris,active 1136.
Hugh,of Saint-Victor,1096?-1141.
Johannes,Homo Dei,active 11th century.
Levet, Pierre,active 1485-1503,printer.
Seguier, Cestamion M. (?),16th century,former owner.StEdNL
Fleming, D. W. B.,active 1902,former owner.StEdNL
Bruce, W.,active 1902,former owner.StEdNL
[Paris : Pierre Levet,
approximately 1495]
Pseudo- Bernardus. The true author of De gubernatione rei familiaris is Bernardus Silvestris (Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche. 2 Aufl. (Freiburg 1957-1567) Bd. 2 col. 248). The Meditationes are also attributed to Hugo de Sancto Victore, De conscientia to an anonymous Cistercian of the 12th century, De ordine vitae to Johannes Homo Dei (cf. Hillard).
Initials supplied in gold and colours.
With marginal annotations.
Copinger
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ISTC
Oates
Polain, M.-L. Catalogue des livres imprimés au quinzième siècle des bibliothèques de Belgique,
Pegg, M. A. Incunables in the National Library of Scotland: accessions 1946-1966,
Under the title manuscript note: 1515. Inscription in early hand at head of verso of back free endpaper: "Cestamion M Seguier" [?]. Dedication inscription on front pastedown dated 1902 from William Bruce of Culross to Reverend D. W. B. Fleming: Viro Reverendo D. W. B. Fleming annis XXV in ministerio fideli ex... & hoc fraternae amicitiae Pignus ... did Gulielmus Bruce Culrossiae A[nno] D[omini] MDCCCCII. Bought by the Library from the Lauriston Castle Fund 31 November 1951.
Original brown leather blind stamped flap binding .
Christian life
Meditations
France Paris.