parts of Liber de Modo Vivendi and a number of sermons, manuscript in Latin, on parchment [England, late fourteenth or early fifteenth century] 2 leaves, single column, 39 lines in an excellent anglicana script with a striking capital ‘A’ formed of twisting curls of a single penstroke with angular loops at its corners outside its main body, red or blue paragraph marks, red rubrics, three 3-line initials in blue with red penwork forming floral infill and long scrolling border decoration, one leaf with a catchword, leaves recovered from a binding, and hence with small holes, stains and scuffing to reverses, 330 by 215mm. These leaves are from a large manuscript of the works of St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), perhaps produced for public reading in a monastic setting. He was an abbot, theologian, aesthetic and one of the primary founders of the Cistercian Order. He is perhaps best known for denouncing the scholastic theologian Peter Abelard to the Pope and the Papal Curia, and then having being pressed by Abelard repeatedly for a public debate on his supposed heresy, Bernard agreed to this only once he had privately won over many of the council where their views where to be judged. After Bernard’s opening statement, Abelard withdrew and submitted himself to the council’s condemnation, retiring thereafter to Cluny where he died two years later.
parts of Liber de Modo Vivendi and a number of sermons, manuscript in Latin, on parchment [England, late fourteenth or early fifteenth century] 2 leaves, single column, 39 lines in an excellent anglicana script with a striking capital ‘A’ formed of twisting curls of a single penstroke with angular loops at its corners outside its main body, red or blue paragraph marks, red rubrics, three 3-line initials in blue with red penwork forming floral infill and long scrolling border decoration, one leaf with a catchword, leaves recovered from a binding, and hence with small holes, stains and scuffing to reverses, 330 by 215mm. These leaves are from a large manuscript of the works of St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), perhaps produced for public reading in a monastic setting. He was an abbot, theologian, aesthetic and one of the primary founders of the Cistercian Order. He is perhaps best known for denouncing the scholastic theologian Peter Abelard to the Pope and the Papal Curia, and then having being pressed by Abelard repeatedly for a public debate on his supposed heresy, Bernard agreed to this only once he had privately won over many of the council where their views where to be judged. After Bernard’s opening statement, Abelard withdrew and submitted himself to the council’s condemnation, retiring thereafter to Cluny where he died two years later.
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