Letters
The 460 letters of Bernard of Clairvaux in Mabillon’s numbering, as printed in the Maurist text of Migne (Patrologia Latina 182, 1854): to popes, kings, bishops, monks and friends, each headed with its addressee and Mabillon’s summary, with a few letters to Bernard (Peter the Venerable’s reply, Eugene III’s letter to the Cistercian chapter) that Mabillon prints among them. Latin from a machine-corrected OCR. Letters 42 (On the conduct and office of bishops), 77 (On baptism) and 190 (Against the errors of Abelard) are the treatises Mabillon moved to the second tome; they are given here as letters. The English is Samuel J. Eales's (Life and Works of Saint Bernard, 1889–1896), with his notes: his numbering follows the Latin to 419, and the letters he adds (charters, letters to Bernard, and those found by Hüffer and others) follow the Latin as an English-only group.
Contents
Source: All letters I-CDLX with their summaries (in italics) and Mabillon’s monita. PL page breaks, columns and the paragraph numbers are dropped. Where the printed numeral repeats a number and skips the next (the second CXX and CCXXI), the skipped number is restored (CXXI, CCXXIX). · Archive.org OCR read from the word-coordinate files and cleaned by script, not proofread: running heads, page numbers and signature marks dropped, the translator's footnotes told from the text by their type and placed at their marker (or, where the OCR lost the marker, at the end of the text of their page). Eales's numbering is the Latin's for letters 1-419; his 420-454 are Latin 421-455, his 455 is Latin 420, and his 485-488 are Latin 457-460, so those chapters carry a line giving his number. His 456-484, 489 and 490 (charters, letters to Bernard, and the appendix of letters found since Mabillon) have no Latin here and are English-only chapters. Latin 456 (to Raymond, a doubtful letter) has no English. Letters 42 and 77 are given by Eales only as a note sending the reader to the treatises.