This website seeks to provide open access research materials from Flores Bernardi ("Bernard's flowers"), a Latin florilegium comprising a large number of Latin quotations attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux that was compiled in the mid-13th century, probably by Guillaume, Dean of Notre-Dame de Courtrai (pictured at right), as argued by Thomas Falmagne in "Le Liber Florigerus: Recherches sur l'attribution d'un florilège augustinien du XIII^e siecle (avant 1260)," Revue des Études Augustiniennes 45 (1999): 139-81; Falmagne thus challenges the traditional attribution of this florilegium to Guillaume de Tournai O.S.B.

The text was first printed by Johann Sensenschmidt at Nuremberg not after 1470 (ISTC ib00388000). From January 2023 to March 2024 three student research assistants (acknowledged below) generated a transcription of this edition from the copy provided freely online by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich: 2Inc.s.a.186.

The sources for the hundreds of quotations that comprise this florilegium are currently being identified and documented.

The next phase of this project will convert the text into an edition of the 13th-century copy in Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, MS lat. 753, which by summer 2025 will be published on this website and become searchable via the Janus Intertextuality Search Engine, developed by Frank Tompa and Andrew Kane in 2008 for The Electronic Manipulus florum Project.