1490 to 1507, Bernardi Modo Bene Vivendi, Way of Life, Very Rare

This book Modo Bene Vivendi is attributed to Abbot Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.

In its original Latin form, this work is a fascinating text and one with considerable artistic merit. 

The twelfth century Liber de modo bene vivendi ad sororem, A book for a sister on the way of living well which, during the Middle Ages and afterwards, was attributed to St Bernard, the Abbot of Clairvaux.

For a long time, it was believed that St Bernard had written the Liber for his sister Humbelina, who had experienced a spiritual conversion in about 1122 and entered the monastery at July around 1124.

The attribution to St Bernard, and the text’s usefulness as an aid for the spiritual life, may explain the large number of copies made during the Middle Ages, though few have survived.

It appears to have been rebound in the past, early 1900s.

Exceedingly rare book!