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BERNARDUS CLARAVALLENSIS (pseudo-). Meditationes. Strassburg [i.e. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius], 1492.
8o (145 x 103 mm). Collation: \Kp\k4 a-g4. 32 leaves. 27 lines. Gothic types 2:150 (first words of sections), 85 (text). Capital spaces with printed guide-letters. (Some marginal worming at end, f2-3 with printer's ink smudging.) Modern brown half morocco. Provenance: Estelle Doheny (paper bookplate; purchased from Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles, 1 November 1943); donated to SMS November 1943.
Although the present work is no longer considered to be by Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), it was in the fifteenth century a popular work aimed to teach "How man by knowledge and understanding of himself may know god" (English edition of 1496). 23 incunable editions are recorded. This edition of the Meditationes is a reprint in the same number of leaves as Amerbach's Basel edition of 1492. The mention of Strassburg in the colophon here seems a deliberate obfuscation. BMC V, 379 (IA.22444); GW 4033; HC 2884; Oates 1927; Pr 5696A; Goff B405.
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Although the present work is no longer considered to be by Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), it was in the fifteenth century a popular work aimed to teach "How man by knowledge and understanding of himself may know god" (English edition of 1496). 23 incunable editions are recorded. This edition of the Meditationes is a reprint in the same number of leaves as Amerbach's Basel edition of 1492. The mention of Strassburg in the colophon here seems a deliberate obfuscation. BMC V, 379 (IA.22444); GW 4033; HC 2884; Oates 1927; Pr 5696A; Goff B405.
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