Bernard, of Clairvaux, 1090-1153 (Saint)

Person

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Dates

Existence: [1090,1091]-1153 - 1153

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Sermo de assumptione Beate Marie by Bernard of Clairvaux, 15th century

part

Identifier: MS 110/ff. 228r-231v

Contents This section contains a sermon on the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, by Bernard of Clairvaux. In this manuscript, it is titled Sermo beati bernardi de assumptione beate marie.It starts on f. 228r with the words Virgo gloriosa celos ascendens. It ends on f. 231v with super laudabilis et super gloriosus in sec. Amen. Writing This...

Dates: 15th century

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / MS 110: Composite manuscript including twenty-five texts

Sermo de miseria humana by Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, late 15th century

part

Identifier: MS 103/ff. 27v-332v

Scope and Contents The text is a translation of a Latin sermon attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153, abbot, founder of the Cistercian order, and Doctor of the Church) with the title Sermo de miseria humana (the Latin text is published in Patrologia Latina 184, columns 1109-1114C).The sermon is introduced by the rubricated words Incommença el libro de san Bernardo: De la miseria de lhomo e del...

Dates: late 15th century

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / MS 103: Composite manuscript including two different texts

Sermones super Cantica Canticorum [incomplete] by Bernard of Clairvaux, 15th century

part

Identifier: MS 99/Margins

Contents Throughout the manuscript, written in the margins and blank spaces, there are extracts of Sermones super Cantica Canticorum by Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), an influential and prolific French abbot of the Cistercian Order. This was one of his most famous works. The text offers a sermon/commentary for each verse of the Song of Songs. Bernard died before finishing it, but other Cistercian abbots later finished his...

Dates: 15th century

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / MS 99: Composite manuscript including eight texts

Tract on Contrition attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux, 14th century

part

Identifier: MS 107/ff. 167r-173v

Contents This section contains a tract on Contrition attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux. It is titled Bernardus de Contritione. It starts on f. 167r with the words O quam vehementi amplexu amplexisti me and ends on f. 173v with per omnia sec. sec. Amen. Explicit contricio beati Bernardi. Writing This section is written in a different hand to the...

Dates: 14th century

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / MS 107: Composite manuscript including twenty-four texts

Tractatus de passione domini by Bernard of Clairvaux

Part

Identifier: MS 113/ff. 79r-103r

Scope and Contents

This section contains 'Tractatus beati Bernhardi de passione domini', 'Treatise on the Passion of the Christ by Bernard of Clairvaux'. Starts with 'Jhesu benigne vitis vera', and ends with 'ymaginem reformemur. Amen. Explicit tractatus beati Bernhardi abbatis de passione domini nostri.

Dates: c 1444-1445

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / MS 113: Composite manuscript containing twenty-three texts

Verses of Saint Bernard, followed by other prayers and an extract from a sermon, early 16th century

part

Identifier: MS 114/ff. 52v-55v

Contents The Verses of Saint Bernard are preceded on f. 52v by the rubric Subscriptos versos diabolus tradidit beato bernardo qui eos cotidie legerit veram suorum peccatorum contritionem in extremis habebit. This refers to a legend according to which Saint Bernard of Clairvaux had tricked the devil into revealing to him sever verses taken from the Psalms which, if recited daily, would guarantee the pardon of all sins. Other two prayers and an extract from a sermon by...

Dates: early 16th century