>There seems to be a bit of confusion so far in this discussion about two
>very different sets of _Meditationes_. One is the _Meditationes Vitae
>Christi_, traditionally attributed to Bonaventure but now plausibly
>assigned to Giovanni de' Cauli of San Gimignano; the other is the
>_Meditationes piissimae_ traditionally attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux
>and printed among his _spuria_ in _Patrologia latina_ 184.
[...]
Dear Steven,
Thank you for the rich and precise info! Yes, confuse I was, and still am,
though not about the _Meditationes piissimae_ (Siegfried Wenzel once gently
explained this point to me). PL 184 also contains a _Sermo de vita et
passione Domini_ (somewhere around column 964) which I have listed at
belonging to Eckbert of Schoenau; and a _Meditatio in passionem et
resurrectionem Domini_, with a chapter De Judae peccato et desperatione (PL
184, 752-753), which -- at least in this chapter (which is all I have read)
-- seems to me to be justly attributed to Bernard. I once copied this
chapter on Judas and have used it a lot ever since, taking it always to be
authentic, but then I was confused by finding references to spurious
writings on the Passion and decided that I should rather have a look at all
these materials and find out what is known about them and their eventual
relations to Pseudo-Bonaventura (Giovanni de' Cauli). And this is exactly
what I should have done instead of bothering you and the list with my vague
remarks!
Yours,
Otfried
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