Marston MS 122     Southern France, s. XIII/XIV
Bernard of Clairvaux, Opera varia, etc.

1. ff. 1r-6v  Incipit prologus domini .Bernardi. abbatis clareuallis de
diligendo deo.   [Prologue:]  Uiro illustri domino. ameruco [?] ecclesie
Romane diachono cardinali...Reliqua diligentioribus reseruate.  Explicit
prologus.  Incipit liber.  Uultis ergo a me audire quare et quo modo
diligendus sit deus. et ego causa diligendi...profectus [sic] esse poterit
miserationis affectu.

Bernard of Clairvaux, De diligendo Deo; J. Leclercq, H. M. Rochais, C. H.
Talbot, eds., S. Bernardi Opera (Rome, 1957- ) v. 3, pp. 119-54 (hereafter
referred to as Opera).

2. ff. 6v-13v  Incipit prefacio sancti bernardi abbatis in laudibus uirginis
matris domini.  Scribere me aliquid et deuotio iubet...si proprie satisfacio
deuotioni.  Explicit prefacio incipit homilia prima.  Missus est angelus
gabriel...[Luc. 1.26].  homelia lectionis eiusdem beati bernardi
abbatis. 
Quid sibi uoluit euangelista tot propria nomina rerum in hoc loco...[f. 7v:]
Explicit homelia prima.  Incipit secunda.  Nouum quidem canticum.  illud quod
solis dabitur in regno dei cantare uirginibus...[f. 10r, rubric misplaced on
f. 10v:]  Libenter ubi mihi congruere uideo uerba sanctorum assumo...[f. 11v:]
explicit .iii. Incipit .iiij.  Non est dubium quicquid in laudibus nostris
proferimus ad filium pertinere...cui hoc meum qualecumque opus domini
deuotissime destinaui.

Bernard of Clairvaux, Homiliae IV in laudibus virginis matris
domini;
Schneyer, v. 1, p. 442 (9-12); Opera 4.13-58.

3.  ff. 13v-28v  Incipit tractatus eiusdem .bernardi. de consideratione ad
eugenium papam epistola primi libri.  [table of contents for Libri
I-V,
f. 14r:]  i.  Quod non presumptorie sed ex sincera dilectione ei 
scribit...x.  Quod non in cognitione dei sed...contemplationis.  Incipit
tractus [sic].  .bernardi.  clareuallis ad eugenium papam de
consideratione.
Subit animum dictare aliquid quod te beatissime eugenii uel edificet uel
delectet uel consoletur...finis libri sed non finis querendi.

Bernard of Clairvaux, De consideratione libri quinque ad Eugenium
III;
Opera 3.393-493.  The divisions for each book noted in the table of contents
at the beginning of the work do not appear as headings in the text.

4. ff. 28v-32v  Incipit apologia beatissimi Bernardi abbatis
clareuallis.
Uenerabili patri  .Guillelmo.  frater Bernardus. fratrum qui in claraualle sunt
inutilis seruus.  salutem in domino.  Vsque modo si qua me scriptitare
iussistis. aut invitus, aut nullatenus acquieui...quod nobis semper fiat 
omnino precor et supplico explicit apologia beati bernardi clareuallensis 
abbatis.

Bernard of Clairvaux, Apologia ad Guillelmum S. Theodorici abbatem;
Opera 3.81-108.

5. ff. 32v-40r  Incipit prologus dompni bernardi abbatis clareuallis in
libro De Dispensacione et precepto.  [preface:]  Domino abbati columbensi
frater  .Bernardus.  abbas dictus de claraualle.  ualere in domino semper.
Rescriptum meum ad epistolas...congruentius uideatur.  [text, f. 33r:]  
Incipit liber.  Qua mente iam tacebo qua fronte tamen loquar Crebis
[sic]
epistolis...quod studui satisfacere uoluntati.

Bernard of Clairvaux, De precepto et dispensatione, preceded by a letter
to the abbot of Coulombs; Opera 3.253-94.

6. ff. 40r-42r  Sermo beati bernardi de passione domini.  Uigilate animo
fratres.  ne infructuose pertranseant uos huius temporis sacramenta copiosa
est...passiones.  propter iusticiam sustinendo//  Explicit sermo beati bernardi
abbatis de passione domini.

Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo de passione domini, ending imperfectly;
Schneyer, v. 1, pp. 445-46 (64); Opera 5.56-66 (line 25).

7.  ff. 42r-43v  Hic incipit contemplatio sancti augustini episcopi de passione 
beate marie uirginis in passione unigeniti filii sui.  Quis dabit capiti meo 
aquam et occulis meis fontem lacrimarum ut possim flere per diem et noctem 
donec sermo [?] ergo dominus ihesus appareat uisu uel sompno consolans animam 
meam...omnia sit benedictus filius eius ihesus christus dominus noster 
Qui...Explicut [sic] contemplatio sancti augustini episcopi de compassione 
beate uirginis....

Ogerius de Lucedio, Planctus Beatae Virginis Mariae (an extract from his
De laudibus sanctae Dei Genitrix); G. Penco, "Ogerio di Lucedio e il
Planctus Mariae," Benedictina 16 (1969) pp. 126-28; M. Capelleno,
"Codici delle opere del beato Ogerio di Lucedio, Bolletino storico
vercellese
18 (1982) pp. 177-83. This work has been attributed previously
to Bernard, Augustine, et al.

8.  ff. 43v-110v  Liber iste incipitur ad collationem adlegens in die 
cene...a quodam dyachono et cantore premonito.  [begins with quotation from
John 13.1-26; followed by, f. 44r:]  Sermo sancti bernardi abbatis de euangelio 
in crastino pasche ibant duo ex discipulis et cetera. [Luc. 24.13].
[1] Cconuertere [sic] anima mea.  in requiem tuam [Ps. 114.7] quia christus
resurrexit a mortuis...[2] Duo ex discipulis...[Luc. 24.13].  Considerata
lectionis huius mira suauitas totas inebriat medullas anime...esurientem.
et salutaribus reparat alimentis.

Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermones ad collationes, some lacking tituli and/or
Biblical readings.  The sermons are arranged in the following order with
numbers in parentheses referring to those in Schneyer, v. 1, pp. 442-55;
incipits are provided for texts as yet unidentified or for those not located in
either Schneyer or Opera:  f. 48r (99); f. 49v (for the Annunciation:  
"Missus est angelus...[Luc. 1.26]. Gabriel missus est ad mariam...;" also
in Paris, B. N. lat. 2914, cited as anonymous in Schneyer, v. 9,
p. 102 [1]); f. 49v (92); f. 50r (93); f. 50v (108); f. 51v (177); f. 51v 
(Petrus  Venerabilis [?], sermon for the Assumption:  "Ad interrogata de 
uirginis et matris domini resolutione temporali...; also in Paris, B. N. 
lat. 12410, f. 42v); f. 52r (sermon for the Assumption variously attributed 
to Paschasius Radbertus, Augustine, Jerome, Anselm:  "Quia profundissime et sui
dignitate altissime sum responsurus..."); f. 53v  (for the Nativity of the
Virgin Mary:  "Celebritas hodierne diei nos ammouet..."); f. 54r (176);
f. 55r (6); f. 55v (Opera, 6.9-20); f. 57v (7); f. 59v (16); ff. 60v-64r
(20-24); f. 64r (26); f. 64v (25); ff. 65v-68v (30-33); f. 68v (89);
f. 70r (34); f. 71r (36); ff. 71v-73v (37-39); f. 73v ("Sermo in ramis
palmarum de euuangelica lectione.  Dixit ihesus discipulis suis.  Ite in
castellum...[Mat. 21.2].  Mundus est castellum cuius.  uallum superbia...;"
cited as anonymous in Schneyer, v. 9, p. 102 (10) from Paris, B. N. lat.
2914); f. 75r (61); f. 76r ("Sermo in die pasce.  Hec est dies quem
[sic]
fecit dominus exultemus et letemur...[Ps. 117.24].  Ista dies est non dies 
mundi...;" cited as anonymous in Schneyer, v. 9, p. 102 (2) from Paris, B. N. 
lat.  2914); ff. 77v-79r (69-71); f. 79r ("Sermo in ascencione
domini.  In 
hac domini ascensione multa nobis beneficia sunt collata...;" cited as anonymous
in Schneyer, v. 9, p. 102 [9] from Paris, B. N., lat. 2914); ff. 79v-82r
(72-74); f. 82r (174); ff. 82v-84v (78-79); f. 84v ("Sermo in festiuitate
sancti iohannis baptiste...In sancti cuiuslibet sollempnitate tria sunt
memorie nostre comendanda..."); ff. 86v-89v (100-02); f. 89v (108); f. 90v
(177); ff. 91r-92v (111-12); ff. 92v-96v (114-17); ff. 96v-100r
(120-21); ff. 100r-102r (126-28); f. 102r (130); ff. 103v-106v (122-24);
f. 106v (156); ff. 107v-108v (82-83); f. 108v (132); f. 110r (145).

9. f. 111r-v  Index for sermons, arranged according to sermones
de tempore, sermones de sanctis, sermones de communi sanctorum et de
occasionibus; unrubicated.  A contemporary hand gives folio references in
margins.

10. f. 112r-v  Index for sermons, arranged according to Biblical
readings; rubricated.  Contemporary hands have added folio references and 
another indexing system using letters of the alphabet.

11. ff. 112v-167v  Incipit sermo de aduentu domini et vj.
circumstancijs.
Hodie fratres celebramus aduentus initium.  cuius utique sicut et ceterarum [?]
sollempnitatum...prouideat ut ad penitenciam adducatur.  Expliciunt
sermo
[sic] de tempore.

Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermones de tempore.  The sermons are arranged in
the following order with numbers in parentheses referring to those in Schneyer,
v. 1, pp. 442-55:  ff. 112v-117r (1-5); ff. 117r-118v (13-14); ff. 118v-122r
(17-19); ff. 122r-125v (27-29); f. 125v (35); f. 125v (40); f. 126v (42; with
Biblical reading:  Obsecramus tamquam aduenas. et peregrinos, abstinere...);
ff. 127r-129r (43-44); ff. 129r-141r (47-55, but with irregular text divisions
in 48 and 49); ff. 141r-145r (57-60); ff. 145r-146v (62-63); ff. 146v-152r
(65-68); f. 152r (175); ff. 152v-158r (74-77); ff. 158r-159r (80-81);
f. 159r (83); f. 160r (167); ff. 160v-161v (169-170); f. 161v (168); f. 162v
(166); f. 163v (84 + 85 written as a single sermon); f. 164v (86); f. 165r
(87); f. 166r (88).

12. ff. 167v-190r  Incipiunt sermones de sanctis et primo [sic] de 
sancto stephano.  Benedictus qui uenit in nomine domini [Ps. 117.26].
Benedictum nomen glorie eius quod est sanctum...suffragia uoluit non deesse.

Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermones de sanctis.  The sermons are arranged in
the following order with numbers in parentheses referring to those in Schneyer,
v. 1, pp. 442-55:  f. 167v (24); f. 168r (91); ff. 168v-173v (96-98);
ff. 173v-177r (103-106); f. 177r (Opera, 5.250-60:  Sermo V in
Assumptione); f. 179r (107); ff. 180r-185r (109-110); f. 185r (113); f. 187v
(129); f. 188v (118).

13. ff. 190r-197v  Incipit prologus sancti bernardi abbatis in libro xij#m.
graduum humilitatis.  In hoc opusculo cum illud de euuangelio quod dominus
ait...opusculi ipse breuiter intimare curauj.  Explicit prologus.  [table:]
Duodecimus corde et corpore semper humilitatem ostendere...et asperis pacienciam
amplecti.  [text:]  Rogasti me frater guilbertus quatenus ea que de gradibus
humilitatis coram fratribus...tu in tuo corde quam in meo codice leges.
Explicit.

Bernard of Clairvaux, De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae;
Opera
3.13-59.  Table for Duodecim gradus humilitatis only, thus lacking lines
15-20 in printed text.

14.  ff. 197v-204r  Incipit prologus sancti bernardi abbatis de gracia et
libero [sic] directus ad dominum hugonem de sancto uictore.  [prologue:]  
Opusculum de gracia et libero arbitrio quod illa qua scitis occasione...uitam
eternam habebsit [sic].  Incipit liber sancti bernardi...Loquente me coram 
aliquo et dei graciam in me commendante...non quos iustos inuenit.  hos et
magnificauit.

Bernard of Clairvaux, De gratia et libero arbitrio; Opera 3.165-203.

15. ff. 204r-208v  [No rubric, prologue:]  Hugoni militi christi et magistro
milicie christi.  Bernardus Clareuallis solo nomine abbas.  bonum certamen
certare.  Semel.  et secundo.  et tercio nisi fallor...non defui voluntati.
[capitula, f. 204v:]  Exortatio.  Ad milites templi...De bethpage.  De
bethania.  [text:]  Nouum milicie genus nuper ortum auditur in terris quam olim
in carne...ad prelium et digitos uestros ad bellum.  Amen.

Bernard of Clairvaux, Liber ad milites templi de laude novae
militiae;
Opera 3.213-239.

16. ff. 208v-217v  Tractatus sancti Bernardi.  Securum habes aditum. ad deum
o homo habes filium autem patrem matrem autem filium.  filius ostendit
patri latus et uulnera.  Mater ostendit filio pectus et ubera...dedignari
parentes.  Explicit tractatus sancti Bernardi.  [short paragraph:]  Nullum
sacrificium magis deo placet quam zelus animarum...si mercedis nil agimus
quantum possumus.

Auctoritates Bernardi.

17. ff. 217v-218v  Dictatus domini bernardi abbatis de conflictu babilone et
ihersulem...Inter babylonem et ierusalem nulla pax est.  sed guerra 
continua...timoris [ille crossed out] mille et a dextris caritatis decem 
milia.

Bernard of Clairvaux, Parabola II de conflictu duorum regum;
Opera
6 (2).267-273.

18. ff. 218v-219v  De obuiatione et misericordie et ueritatis opusculo
iusticie et pacis.  Misericordia et ueritas obuiauerunt...[Ps. 84.11].
Iste quattuor  uirtutes et ut ita dicam sorores filie...est honor et
gloria....

This text also occurs in the collected works of St. Bernard in Stuttgart,
Hofbibiliothek VII 55, ff. 40r-42v; J. Autenrieth, ed., Die Handschriften
der ehemaligen Hofbibliothek Stuttgart (Wiesbaden, 1963) II, 3, p. 203.

19. f. 219v  [Heading:]  Quidam monachus erat in burgundia qui salutare
consueuerat...Dominus dans istos quinque uersus dixit sic me salutare
curabis.
Aue domine ihesu christe uerbum patris filius uirginis agnus dei salus
mundi hostia sacra....

Hymnus ad dominum Iesum Christum; Wilmart 412-13.

20. ff. 219v-221v  Opus beati bernardi de forma uiuendi in
religione.
Primo semper debes considerare qua re ueneris ad quid ueneris et propter
quid ueneris nisi solum modo propter deum...Statim uolunt de hac disputare
ut uideantur et ipsi aliquid//  Explicit iste liber.  Explicit opus beati
bernardi de forma uiuendi in religione.

David of Augsburg, O. F. M., Formula novitiorum, ending imperfectly;
PL 184.1189-98, where the text is attributed to Ps.-Bernard; Bloomfield, 
Virtues and Vices, no. 4155 (Marston MS 122 not listed).

21. ff. 221v-222v  Item de religiosis.  Item alio modo in religione.
Si quis inter nos emendatioris uite desiderio actus intrinsecus
cogitationum...ymo sic se estimet quasi solus ipse et deus pater//  amen.

Arnulfus de Boeriis, Speculum monasticum, ending imperfectly;
PL 184.1175-78, where the text is attributed to Ps.-Bernard.

22. ff. 222v-236v  Incipit prologus in lucidario.  [prologue:]  Sepius
rogatus a discipulis quasdam questiunculas enodare...solers subtilitas.
[text:]  Incipit primus liber in lucide [?] diuinis rebus. I.
D.
Gloriose magister rogo te ut ad inquisita michi ne pigriteris respondere ad
honorem diei.  M. Equidem faciam quantum uires ipse michi dabit...et uideas
bona iherusalem omnibus diebus uite tue.  Amen.  Explicit lucidarius.
[f. 236r:]  Incipit tabula de diuinis rebus .I./ De creatione mundi .ij./
De elementis .iij./...De honore sanctorum [De pleno gaudio
sanctorum crossed
out] .cxlvi./ De pleno gaudio sanctorum .cxlvij.

Honorius Augustodunensis, Elucidarium; Y. Lefevre, ed., L'Elucidarium
et les Lucidaires, Bibliotheque des Ecoles Francaises d'Athenes et de Rome 180
(Paris, 1954) pp. 359-477.  Chapters numbered (some missing) in Roman numerals,
i-clxix; numbers in text do not always correspond to those given in the
table on ff. 236r-v.  Initials M[agister] and D[iscipulus] for
interlocutors, in red, throughout.

23. ff. 236v-263v  Item bernardus ad dominum papam eugenium...  Tempus est
ut ego scribam non iam pro episcopo sed...quibus abiectus bibet cum illo
calicem dolore.

Bernard of Clairvaux, Epistolae; the letters appear in the following
order, with numbers referring to Opera, vols. 7-8; in the manuscript the
letters are numbered, often carelessly, cxxvij-cccxliiij (ending on f. 255r):
246, 256, 248-52, 122-23, 257-66, 268-71, 267, 272-84, 289, 285, 288, 253,
290, 374, 310, 365, 382, 395, 400, 339, 414, 318, 349, 367, 386, 291-96,
286-87, 297-307, 362, 368, 345, 390, 341, 356-57, 324-25, 401-03, 385, 383-84,
315, 404-05, 391, 407-09 [followed by a series of letters about Abelard:]
190, 189, 188, 187, 191 [the capitula de erroribus Abelardi on f. 260v in the
following order:  1-7, 17, 8-16, 18-19], 194, Ad dominum papam.  Dei
omnipotentis qui iudicat equitatem graciam roborati et in nostri..., 236,
Papa ad abbatem clarauallis.  Litteras uestras de electione eboracensis
ecclesie nobis transmissas..., 239, Ad Eugenium papam.  Cum multi sunt uocati
pauci uero electi.  Non est magnum..., 363, Gracioso et felici militi Raymundo
domino castri anbrosij.  Bernardus in senium te ductus saluum totis petis....

24. f. 263v   Reference to the assassination of Louis d'Orleans in 1407 added
by a contemporary hand.

Parchment (palimpsests of ecclesiastical documents, many leaves pieced and
patched), ff. ii (paper) + 263 (remains of contemporary foliation 1-263) + ii
(paper), 332 x 230 (252 x 168) mm.  2 columns, 50 lines.  Ruling format varies.
Ruled in lead or crayon; some traces of prickings.
I-X 10, XI 10 (+ 1 leaf at end, f. 111), XII-XIX 10, XX 6, XXI-XXIII 10,
XXIV 8, XXV-XXVI 10, XXVII 6 (+ 2 leaves at end).  Catchwords, decorated with
red and/or black designs, center of lower margin, verso.
Written by multiple scribes in a small rounded gothic bookhand, below top
line.
Folios 1-50 have flourished initials, 3- to 2-line, alternating blue with
red penwork designs and red with purple; two initials of better quality, 
divided red and blue, with red and purple flourishes (ff. 42r, 43v); many
initials have harping designs.  For remainder of manuscript uninspired red
initials, either plain or with harping designs in brown ink.  Rubrics,
underlining and initial strokes, in red, throughout.  Running headlines,
in red, on ff. 1r-83r.  Notes to rubricator in margins.  Paragraph marks,
red or blue.
Binding:  France, s. xviii.  Greenish brown goatskin gold-tooled.
Gold-tooled panels and dark red gold-tooled label (damaged) on spine. 
Red edges. 

Written at the end of the 13th or beginning of the 14th century in Southern
France, most probably near Avignon since one of the ecclesiastical documents
used as a palimpsest (f. 65r) was executed at Villeneuve-les-Avignon (name visible
under ultra-violet light).  Early provenance otherwise unknown; contemporary
note in lower margin, f. 1v:  "Bf. Consignatus est."  From the library of Acton
Griscom of Hight Point, New Jersey (De Ricci, v. 2, p. 1162, no. 8).
Purchased from Lathrop C. Harper in 1957 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).

secundo folio:  floribus

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 78, no. 122.
Leclercq, 1961, p. 164.

Barbara A. Shailor