Diui bernardi abbatis : doctoris sanctissimi : ad uenerabilem moniale[m] in christo sponsam : sororem sua[m] : modus bene uiuendi : quo o[mn]es nempe morales : ac theologice uirtutes summatim contine[n]tur.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153.

Thomas, von Froidmont, -approximately 1225.

Arrivabene, Cesare, active 1517-1528, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

French Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Liber de modo bene vivendi ad sororem.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Christian life--Catholic authors--Early works to 1800.

Christian life.

Christian life--Catholic authors.

Penn Provenance:

Bavius(?), Gregorius (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

W.F.G.S.D.Z.C. (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

lxxxvii leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf ; 16 cm (8vo)

Edition:

Nouissime post om[n]es impressiones ubiq[ue] locorum excussas affatim recognitus : cunctisq[ue] me[n]dis : & erroribus expurgatus.

Other Title:

Divi Bernardi abbatis doctoris sanctissimi ad venerabilem monialem in christo sponsam

Fingerprint:

e-i. uiec anti musi (3) 1518 (T)

Place of Publication:

Impressi uero summa diligentia Venetiis : Per C[a]esarem arriuabenum uenetum, Anno domini milesimo quingentesimo decimo octauo die ultimo septembris [1518]

Notes:

Imprint from colophon.

Woodcut colophon printer's device & inhabited initials.

Traditionally attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux. However, Dictionnaire de Spiritualité names Thomas von Froidmont as author, while Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (GW) leaves author unknown.

Error in foliation: leaf xi misnumbered ii.

Signatures: A-L⁸.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in vellum leaf from a late medieval ms. in a Gothic bookhand, written in brown ink with initials in blue and red or red and purple ink; text: Psalm 88(89): 46-48.

Culture Class Collection copy has a ms. quotation from Pseudo-Varro, Sententiae (21.1), which reads "vis experiri amicu[m] calamitosus fias", on the title page.

Culture Class Collection copy has a ms. ownership inscription, which reads "ex libris Gregorij Bauij(?) et suo[rum]", followed by, and in a different hand, the ms. initials "W.F.G.S.D.Z.C." Another ms. inscription follows, inked over, and almost completely illegible, which begins, "Ad usu[m] ..."

Cited in:

Janauschek, L. Bibliographia bernardina, 406

OCLC:

33113503