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 siècle (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 were then identified and documented by Iris Bednarski, an undergraduate student at McGill University.

After the edition from the incunable is completed, the final phase of this project will produce an edition of the 13th-century copy in Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, MS lat. 753, which is significantly different from the printed version. Both versions are expected to be published on this website by August 2025; it is intended that the manuscript version will subsequently become searchable via the Janus Intertextuality Search Engine.