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Burney MS 299

Record Id:

040-002237210

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00015b

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 299

Title:

Ascetical works by and attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux

Scope & Content:

ff. 1-28: Pseudo Bernard (= John of Fruttuaria): De ordine morum vitae et morum institutione. Tit. Insipit tractatus sancti Bernardi de ordine vitae et morum insititutione. Inc. Hortatur quidem timidam mentis meae imperitiam. Expl. supplexque tu ora hoc modo. (PL 184, 561-584. Cf. also Wilmart (1971), pp. 64-100).

ff. 28-28v: Three extracts from the Sententiae attributed to Benrard of Clairvaux. 1.: Inc. Pars tua sumus domine.... 2: Inc. In circumcisione domini3. Inc. Tres rivi salutis fluxerunt (PL 183, 750C-D; PL 184, 1149D)

ff. 29-60: Bernard of Clairvaux: De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae. Inc. Rogasti me, frater Godefride, quatenus ea quae... Expl. ...melius in tuo corde quan in nostro codice leges. (PL 182, 941-972)

ff. 60-66v: Bernard of Clairvaux: Sermo 40: De septem gradibusconfessionis. Tit. De via confessionis et oboedientiae Inc. Notas mihi fecisti vias vitae.... Expl. verba domini salvatoris qui est benedictus in saecula. Amen. (PL 183, 647-673)

ff. 67-74v: Bernard of Clairvaux: Sermo 40: De virtute oboedientiae et septem gradibuseius Tit. De via oboedientiae Inc. Non possumus nos aliquid cogitare... Expl. ...sponsus ecclesiae dominusnoster qui est benedictus in saecula. Amen. (PL 183, 673-681).

f. 75: Extracts from the Bible and others about restraining the tongue.

f. 75v: Extracts from Walter of Chatillon's Alexandreis. 1 Inc. Quam frivola gaudia mundi! Quam rerum fugitivus honor, quam nomen inanc! Magnus in exemplo est cui non suffeecrat orbis, Sufficit exciso de fosso marmore terra Quinquc pedum fabricata domus, quam nobile corpus Exigua requievit humo. 2. Inc. Vir bone quid curas (Walther I 20387).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237210

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 299 : Ascetical works by and attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0294]/040-002237210

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 120 x 85 mm (text space 90 x 55 mm).

Foliation: ff. 75 (5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end of the volume). Some folios at the beginning of the volume were misbound and their right order: ff. 1, 2, 5-7, 3, 8-13, 4, 14-28.

Script: Gothic Rotunda. Blue and red initials, with titles in red.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown calf.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy (cf. script).

Provenance:

Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.

Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney's library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818.

Publications:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part II: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), p. 76.

A. Wilmart, Auteurs spirituels et textes dévots du Moyen Âge latin (Paris, 1932; reprinted Paris, Etudes Augustiniennes 1971), pp. 64-100 (MS not mentioned)

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot of Clairvaux, ?1090-1153,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120962264,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/59875293
Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux