BERNARDO DE CLARAVAL, Santo.- D. BERNARDI | Doctoris Mellitissimi, | AC PRIMA ABBATIS | Claræuallensis oenobij, | OPERA QVATENVS in HVNC | VSQVE DIEM EXTARE NOSCVNTVR, | Omnia accuuratissima recognitione & so- | leri collatione ad fidem exempla- | rium permultæ antiquitatis re- | stituta natiuæ integritati. | Quæ nostra hæc editio præter superiores nunc primum typis | euulgat, nosse licebit ex catalogo & appendice, [gravura xilográfica].- Venetiis: Ad Signvm Spei. M D XLIX. [1549].- [58], 451, [4] f.; 21 cm.- E. Junto com: -----.- OPVSCVLA | QVAEDAM, ET SER | MONES D. BERNARDI | CLARAEVALLENSIS COE- | NOBII ABBATIS PRIMI, | quæ nec in Lugdunensibus, neque in Pa- | risiensibus impressionibus | reperiuntur, NVPERRIME AVTEM IN QVODAM | uetustissimo exemplari inuenta, suis operibus | nunc per me excusis addita, quo- | rium indicem sequens in- | dicabit pagella. [gravura xilográfica].- Ad Signvm Spei, M. D. L. [1550].- 45, [3] f.; 21 cm. Junto com: -----.- D. BERNARDI | DOCTORIS MELLITISSIMI | AC PRIMI ABBATIS CLA- | RAEVALLENSIS COENOBII | OPERVM | TOMVS SECVNDVS. | QVATENVS IN HVNC VSQVE | DIEM EXTARE NOSCVNTVR, | omnia accuratissima recognitione & solerti col- | latione ad fidem exemplarium per- | mutæ antiquitatis nati- | uæ integritati | restituta. | [gravura xilográfica].- Venetiis: Ad Signvm Spei, 1549.- 485 f.; 21 cm.- E 16th century Venetian edition of some of the most important texts by one of the great Doctors of the Church. Saint Bernard (1090-1153), reformer of the Cistercian Order, canonized in 1174 by Pope Alexander III, founded in 1115 the Abbey of Claraval, mother house of around 350 monasteries spread across Europe, including Alcobaça. It contains ancient manuscripts, in both volumes: Cœnobijj Costensis vsu[m] vero obtinet Frater Antonii Rebellus; Br. Diogo de Brandão. Title page of the first volume with some stains and wormholes, without affecting the text. Contemporarry bindings (?), full sheepskin, with blind decoration on the covers and new (reconstructed) spines, retaining the four metal clasps (a loose strap). Carmine edges with the abbreviated author's name inscribed in large capitals on the front edge.