Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Liber Confortatorius; An incomplete account of St Thomas Becket's death; An excerpt from a chant on the martyrdom of St Catherine; An antiphon with neumes; A hymn on St Catherine; Brevis relatio; A genealogy of the kings of England; St Bernard of Clairvaux, Epistula ad Eugenium (imperfect)
Agent
Preferred form
Bernard de Clairvaux (saint, 1090?-1153)
Original form
Bernard of Clairvaux, ?1090-1153, Abbot of Clairvaux
Other form
S. Bernardus
BERNARDUS CLARAEVALLENSIS (s.)
Bernardus Claraevallensis (saint ; 1090?-1153)
Bernardus Claraevallensis
Bernardus Claraevallensis,
Bernard
Bernard de Clairvaux (saint ; 1090?-1153)
S. Bernardus Clarevallensis
Bernard de Clairvaux
Bernard, de Clairvaux (S.)
Bernardus beatus
BERNARDUS CLARAEVALLENSIS
Bernardi Claraevallensis
Beati Bernardi
S. Bernardus [Claravallensis]
Bernardus
S. Bernardus Claraevallensis
Bernair
S. Bernardi
Bernardi
Sancti Bernardi [BERNARDUS CLARAEVALLENSIS]
BERNARDI abbati |BERNARDUS CLARAEVALLENSIS]
Bernard (Saint), abbé de Clairvaux
Bernard de Clairvaux, saint, 1090?-1153
Bernhard von Clairvaux
Bernardo de Claraval
Bernat de Claravall
Author: Bernardus, Claraevallensis
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153
Bernard of Clairvaux
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153
Bernard of Clairvaux OCist
St Bernard
Bernardus Claraevallensis, 1090-1153
Bernard (saint)
Bernhard von Clairvaux, Heiliger, 1090-1153
Bernardus<Claraevallensis>
Bernhard <von Clairvaux, Heiliger> (1090-1153)
Sant Bernhart
Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint (1090 or 1091-1153)
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint (1090 or 1091-1153)
Bernardus (ca. 1090/91-1153)
Bernardo, Santo, 1090-1153
Bernhard, von Clairvaux, Heiliger, 1090-1153
Bernardus <Claraevallensis>
Bernardo, Santo, 1090-1153 > , co-autor
Bernardus Claraevallensis - 1090 - 1153 - auteur
Bernardus Claraevallensis - 1090 - 1153 - auteur (dubium)
Bernardus Claraevallensis - 1090 - 1153 - oorspronkelijke auteur
This manuscript contains the unique extant witness of the Liber
Confortatorius (ff. 1r-117v) written by Goscelin of Saint-Bertin
(d. c. 1107) for an English recluse named Eve. Eve left her convent
for an anchoritic life in France, under the guidance of Hervé, a
monk of Vendôme, near Tours, and spent her life in the Saint
Eutrope chapel linked to the priory of Levière affiliated with the
Benedictine abbey of the Trinity, Vendôme. Goscelin addressed this
book of encouragement and consolation to Eve in order to encourage
her to follow the example of saints and martyrs. It also includes
an expression of his sorrow on the loss of a friend (see Talbot,
'The Liber Confortatorius ' (1955)). The Liber Confortatorius may
also be seen as a work of spiritual instruction for a female
anchorite (see Hollis, 'Goscelin’s Writings and the Wilton Women'
(2004)). The Liber Confortatorius is followed (f. 114v) by a later
addition, written by a different hand, of an account of St Thomas
Becket's murder (1170), left imcomplete (f. 114v); and material
related to St Catherine, including an antiphon (f. 115v) and a hymn
(f. 116r). The manuscript ends with the Brevis relatio, written by
a monk of the Benedictine abbey of Battle between 1114-1120 (ff.
116v-121v) , which is a short history of Normandy and England from
1035 to the battle of Yinchebrai (1106). It includes a list of the
kings of England to Henry I (d. 1135) and St Bernard of Claivaux's
epistle to Pope Eugenius III (ff. 121v-122r) (imperfect). The two
parts (ff. 1r-115v; 116r-122r) were bound separately, but were most
probably written in the same Northwestern area of France (likely
Normandy). The part containing the Brevis relatio might have been
copied at the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Vigor, Cerisy-la-Forêt or
from an exemplar from this abbey, according to van Houts, 'The
Brevis relatio' (1999), p. 9. Both part have a 13th-century
ownership inscription of the abbey of Saint Sauveur-le-Vicomte.
They were bound together at an early date. Contents: ff. 1r-114v:
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Liber Confortatorius (Book of
Encouragement and Consolation), preceded by a prologue (ff. 1r-v),
beginning: 'Primus agit questus et consolamina thomus. Pella cum
demonibus movet evincitque secundus'; beginning of the text (f.
1v): 'O Luce dilectior anima adest tibi Goscelinus tuus,
inseparabili anime presentia'. Additions to the text and
corrections have been written throughout by a different hand in the
lower margin with the reference sign 'B' (e. g., ff. 5v; 7r). f.
114v: An incomplete account of St Thomas Becket's death, beginning:
'De archiepiscopo Cantuariensis'. f. 115r: An excerpt from a chant
on the martyrdom of St Catherine (imperfect). f. 115v: An antiphon
with neumes in honour of St Bartholomew.f. 116r: A hymn on St
Catherine, beginning: 'Katherine collaudemus, virtutum insignia'.
ff. 116v-121v: Anonymous, Brevis relatio (Brief account),
beginning: 'Incipit quedam brevis relatio de Guillelmo nobilissimo
comite Normannorum, quis fuit et unde originem duxit, et quo
hereditario iure Angliam sibi armis quisivit. Pater huius Willelmi
fuit Rodbertus dux Normannorum vir omni probitate conspicuus'. f.
121v: A genealogy of the kings of England, beginning: 'Ine regnavit
.xxx.vii. annis post eum regnavit Athelbardus annis .xiiii.'. ff.
121v-122r: St Bernard of Clairvaux, Epistula ad Eugenium (Epistle
to Eugenius III), imperfect at the end, beginning: 'Amantissimo
Patri et domino Dei gratia summo Pontifici Eugenio'. f. 122r:
Excerpt from Pseudo-Augustine, De triplici habitaculo (On the
triple abode) , beginning: 'Tria sunt sub omnipotentis Dei manu
habitacula'. f. 122v: An antiphon with neumes, which is close to
the Quicumque vult , beginning: 'Quicumque vult salvus esse/ ipsum
fidem necesse'. Decoration:Two large initial in green, the first
with penwork decoration in red (ff. 116v, 121v), and 1 large
initial in red. Large initials in red or green, with a few in
yellow, some with penwork decoration in another colour, the red
often oxidised (ff. 1r-114v). Small initials in brown, some with
simple penwork decoration.Highlighting of letters in red.
