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| Title: | Bernard of Clairvaux, De consideratione. Manuscript (Ms 9) |
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| Dates: | circa 1465 |
| Manuscript Number: | Codex Ms 9 |
| Size: | 1 volume, 21 x 15 cm. |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | Saint Bernard of Clairvaux's advice to Pope Eugene III on ecclesiastical government, composed during 1149-1152. Text in Latin. Codex Ms 9. |
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Saint Bernard of Clairvaux's advice to Pope Eugene III on ecclesiastical government, composed during 1149-1152, which belogings to the genre of mirror for magistrates. Warning the Pope to avoid tyrannical acts, Bernard outlines his ideal of the model pontiff, then suggests a wide variety of reforms in ecclesiastical government.
Tooled brown leather over boards, with clasps.
Test in Latin.
| Volume 1 | Codex Ms 9 |