Incipit speculu[m] Beati Bernhardi abbatis de honestate vite
Publisher: Martin Flach (printer of Basel)
Published: 1472
Place of publication: Basel, Switzerland
Language: lat
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: Christian life; Catholic authors; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Speculum Beati Bernhardi abbatis de honestate vitae; Speculum de honestate vitae. Octo puncta perfectionis assequendae; Container of (work): Formula honestae vitae.; Container of (work): Octo puncta perfectionis.
Notes: Imprint from ISTC.

Text consists of two anonymous works spuriously attributed to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. The author of the first was possibly Bernardus Silvestris--see Bod-Inc, 209 (describing edition: Cologne : Zell, approximately 1475): "Speculum de honestate vitae. (Also known as Formula honestae vitae.) Incipit: Petis a me, fili et frater, quod nunquam et nusquam aliquem a suo prouisore audiui petisse ..." Refs. PL CLXXXIV 1167-82, but with a slightly different incipit. On authorship see Glorieux, Migne, 73-4."

Collation: 4to: [unsigned, 1¹⁰]; 10 leaves, unnumbered.

Type: 117. Leaf [2]r: 24 lines, 120 x 85 mm. Capital spaces, without guide letters.

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Table of contents: title: Formula honestae vitae, leaves [1]r-[5]r; title: Octo puncta perfectionis (with caption: "Explicit speculu[m] bernhardi abbatis de honestate vite. Incipiu[n]t octo pu[n]cta: media[n]te quib[us] p[er]uenit[ur] ad perfect[i]o[n]e[m] vite spiritulis eiusdem."), [5]r-[10]v.