It could be of some interest to you to know there is extant a Middle English
version of this tract: A deuoute tretes of holy saynt. Bernard drawne oute
of latyn in to english. callid the manere of good lyuynge which he sent vnto
his own Suster. Wherin is conteyned the Summe. of euery vertue necessary vn
to cristis religion and holy conuersacion.
So far as I know, the only text of this version which has survived (if there
were any others) is in Bodl.Laud misc.517, ff.1r-175r. date 15ex/16in?
provenance Sheen?
Peter Jolliffe
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From: Eric Reiter <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 06 May 1999 23:58
Subject: Re: Thomas of Froidmont
>
>Morton Bloomfield et al., *Incipits of Latin Works on the Virtues and
>Vices* (Cambridge, Mass., 1979), #1759 lists only "Madrid, Nac. 871."
>
>It's a start, anyway.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Eric Reiter
>Concordia University, Montreal
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>
>Janice Pinder wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>> I am interested in a text called "Liber" or "Tractatus de modo beni
>> vivendi ad sororem", long attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux and more
>> recently to Thomas of Froidmont (edited PL 184, 1199-1306). The
>> editor of two of Thomas's attested works, Paul Schmidt, rules out
>> this attribution, and indeed it is hard to see how Thomas's works and
>> this text could be by the same author. So, to my question: does
>> anyone know (a) of any work done on the manuscript tradition of this
>> text or (b) of the location of any of its manuscripts?
>> With many thanks in advance,
>> Jan Pinder
>> Janice Pinder
>> Research Associate
>> History Department
>> Monash University
>> Clayton 3168
>> Australia
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