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Beginning To Know Saint Bernard

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 September 2024

John Morson O.C.R.
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The English Cistercians recently acquired a manuscript, copied in about 1200, of the first Life of St Bernard. It is a good specimen of the way in which the Life was distributed through the Cistercian and other monateries of Europe in the decades following the saint's death and also shows the kind of difficulty which a small or newly-founded house may have had in setting up and mainlining taining its scriptorium. The codex is all the more valuable because it is headed by a miniature portrait of the saint executed probably when many who had seen him were still alive. The portrait from the first folio of the codex is repro- duced, a little larger than actual size, in this issue. If any are Interested in a more technical account of the MS.

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Research Article
Information
Life of the Spirit , Volume 8 , Issue 89 , November 1953 , pp. 199 - 205
Copyright
Copyright © Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers. 1953

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References

1 We read in The Dublin Review, 1953, p. 109: ‘For a whole year in his carly manhood as abbot he was forced to live apart from his monks in a hut because his physical presence was unbearable in choir or at table'. This is in an admirable article by Dom David Knowles. But the first Life gives only the need of convalescence and the insistence of the Bishop of Châlons as reasons for the year in the hut. It seems clear that the writer of the article has confused Book I, chapter 7 (Mabillon's chapter division)