Author: Bernard de Clairvaux, Saint
Title: Opera genuina, juxta editionem monachorum Sancti Benedicti. Tomus I-III.
Description: Lyon & Paris, Perisse Frères, 1854. Complete in 3 volumes. (iv), 526 pp.; (4), 472 pp.; (4), 472 pp. Later half cloth with marbled boards. 8vo. 21x13 cm. With index. Author's name at head of title. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. Decorative, clean and solid copy of the second (and last?) edition of this 19th century compilation of the works of Saint Bernard (1091-1153), spiritual leader, founder of the abbaye of Clairvaux and famous for his preaching. It comes in 444 epistles, 12 tracts (theological or moral) and the sermons: I. Epistola CCCCXLIV et VII opuscula complectens. II. Complectens VI opuscula, et sermones de tempore de de Sanctis. III. Sermones de diversis et in Cantica complectens. Advertisements for bookseller Perisse Freres in Lyon and Paris on verso of half t.p. in each v. Shelf-mark on half-titles, upper right corner of first 10 pages in volume 2 damaged without loss of text. Light spotting and browning throughout. Janauschek, L. Bib. Bernardina, 2218; BM 15:884; BN 11:509; Cf. Graesse, I, p. 344 for the 1845 edition; NBG 5, col. 558-570. 3 copies in OCLC, nr 41172551;

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