Sermons on the Song of Songs
The eighty-six sermons Bernard preached to his monks at Clairvaux from about 1135 until his death, an allegorical commentary on the first two chapters of the Song of Songs and the great classic of medieval love mysticism: the soul’s union with the Word. Latin from the Maurist text in Migne (Patrologia Latina 183, 1854), a machine-corrected OCR; Mabillon’s note on the Evervin letter is kept at the end of Sermon 64. The English is that of a priest of Mount Melleray (Dublin, 1920), with his preface, notes and two appendices.
Contents
Source: All eighty-six sermons. PL page breaks, column numbers and paragraph numbers are dropped; Scripture references stay in parentheses as printed. Mabillon’s editorial note on the Evervin letter, printed in the PL after Sermon 64, is kept at the end of that sermon. The OCR carries a few residual slips. · Archive.org OCR read from the word-coordinate file and cleaned by script, not proofread: running heads and signature marks dropped, words broken at the gutter or misread repaired by a lexicon pass. About sixty pages the scan curled at the gutter were corrected by hand against the page images, and sermons XLII, XLIV and XLVII were re-read from the images with Tesseract. The translator's footnotes are kept, placed at their marker or, where the marker was lost, at the point the note stood on its page. The translator's preface and his two appendices (on the Sacred Heart; the glories of Saints Bernard and Augustine) are English-only chapters.