Menudencias Bernardicas da elegancia claravalica. Labaredas do engenho, brazinhas da Eabilidade, faiscas do Juizo, […].
Veneza, Na officina Balleonianna, 1747, Com todas as Licenças Necessarias.
In-8 (210 x 165 mm), brown calf, spine titled Chron. dors Bernar. ; binding rubbed, a few leaves formerly removed at the beginning of the volume (Period binding).
A curious Portuguese manuscript addressed to the Baglioni family (Officina Balleoniana) in Venice, with a black and red section characteristic of the printed output of this dynasty of Venetian typographers, printers and booksellers.
It's a religious and philosophical mix inspired by Bernard de Clairvaux, an important promoter of the Cistercian order.
The title could be translated as “Broutilles bernardines de l'élégance clairvauldienne. Flames of ingenuity, embers of ability, sparks of judgment, [...].”
The manuscript consists of several parts in Portuguese and Latin.
It contains a dedication, a prologue, “protestations”, a preface and a first part devoted to Bernard de Clairvaux's thoughts (68 ff. in all), with numerous sayings by Bernard and his preachers, as well as Bernard's letters.
This is followed by 6 speeches or sermons (46 ff.) delivered by Cistercians in Portuguese royal monasteries (with the names of the preachers, one dated 1663 for the Nativity).
The manuscript continues in Latin with an Officium laicorum nostrorum, caterorum que ordinum (12 ff.), a two-column manuscript in black and red very similar to the productions of the Baglioni in Venice, of which this was one of the specialties.
The last pages contain a copy of a letter and a funeral oration (8 ff.).
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