Sermons on the Song of Songs (Sermones super Cantica Canticorum)

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.