Opera varia, etc.

Description

Title: Opera varia, etc.
Creator: Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153
Honorius, of Autun, ca. 1080-ca. 1156
Published / Created: [ca. 1300]
Publication Place: Southern France,
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: Binding: Eighteenth century, France. Greenish brown goatskin gold-tooled. Gold-tooled panels and dark red gold-tooled label (damaged) on spine. Red edges.
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.
Imperfect: some pages badly rubbed making text illegible.
Script: Written by multiple scribes in a small rounded gothic bookhand, below top line.
Extent: ff. ii + 263 + ii : parchment ; 332 x 230 (252 x 168) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Format: mixed material
Genre: Decorated initials
Devotional literature
Manuscripts
Marginalia
Sermons
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Topic): Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Latin letters, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Sermons, Latin
Sermons--Early works to 1800

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Citation: Bernard of Clairvaux, Opera Varia, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Marston MS 122.

Orbis Record: 9809578
Object ID (OID): 11403235
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mars122.htm