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Contemporary ex dono by a humanist scholar from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège to an Italian cardinal [Theology] BERNARDUS CLARAEVALLENSIS De consideratione ad Eugenium Papam tertium [...]. Rome, G. Facciotti, 4to: [8]-219-[pp. (some light browning). 18th-c. sheep, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, speckled edges (head and tail missing, front joint split, corners bumped, sides rubbed). Treatise on cardinal virtues and church leadership by Bernard of Clairvaux (c. 1090-1153), abbot and mystic, dedicated to his former disciple pope Eugene III. Large woodcut on title. Title in red and black. Ref. Edit- Adams I:Prov. Gifted in to Cardinal Giovanni Evangelista Pallotta (1548-1620), archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica, by Gerardus Vossius Borghlonius (= Geeraard Vuskens, Borgloon c. 1547-Liège), Latinist and Hellenist scholar and clergyman who spent considerable time in Rome (ms. entry on title). - Mod. collector's label.