BERNARD DE CLAIRVAUX (Saint). Opuscula divi... - Lot 52 - Ader

BERNARD DE CLAIRVAUX (Saint). Opuscula divi Bernardi abbatis clarevallensis. Venice: Simone Bevilacqua, October 17, 1495. - In-8, 158 x 105: (346 ff.) [sig. A-B8 a-z8 2 [culbuté]8ʔ8 મ 8 A-O8 P10]; Roman car., 30 lines, and goth. car. on two col. of 40 lines. Havana calf on wooden ais, boards decorated with a cold-framed decoration composed of straight and oblique triple filets and interlacing irons in the frame, diamond-shaped irons forming two crosses joined by another diamond-shaped iron in the centre, leather and chased brass clasps, spine ribbed and decorated with cold-framed filets, smooth edges (contemporary binding). BMC, V, p. 520. - Hain, 2922. - Pellechet, 2157. Incunabulum edition of the works of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) published by the poet and hagiographer Teofoli Bona (14..-1512), Benedictine member of the Brescia Abbey. This edition follows page by page the one printed on March 18 of the same year 1495 in Brescia by Angelo and Giacomo Britannico, except for the first two sections which here comprise 16 pages, while there are 18 in the previous one. It consists of a title printed in Gothic letters, 16 leaves of introductory pieces printed in Roman characters and comprising 30 lines per page, containing the Carmen de vita sancti Bernardi of the publisher and the table of the book, followed by 39 texts of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, printed in Gothic characters in two columns of 40 lines. Bernard of Clairvaux was a Burgundian monk, a contemplative given to the love of Christ and his Church, considered by his contemporaries as a reforming monk who meddled in everything, including the Pope's affairs. His influence was such that he passed for the "father of the pope", he was both feared and adored. Calling himself "servants of the poor", he created the Abbey of Clairvaux in 1115 with a few companions sent by Stephen Harding (1060?-1134), abbot of the Abbey of Cîteaux. Pope Eugene II asked him to preac