Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermons on the Song of Songs is a primary foundational medieval mystical text; the atlas records no publisher and no exact publication year because it survives through manuscript transmission from the twelfth century rather than a single dated modern edition. Its strength is that it is the primary source itself, Bernard's own extended mystical reading of the biblical text, not a later description of his interpretation. Its limit is the ordinary one for citing a medieval sermon cycle without specifying a translation: this record does not establish which edition underlies a given quotation from it.
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Reliability tier 1: the primary foundational text itself, surviving through manuscript transmission rather than a single dated modern edition, the author's own extended reading rather than a later description of it. NotesBernard of Clairvaux's foundational mystical sermon cycle on the Song of Songs.
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AuthorBernard of Clairvaux
Source Typeprimary-text
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- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
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