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title: Estoire d'Eracles page with Bernard of Clairvaux preaching the Second Crusade in the initial (Walters W.137, fol. 180v)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eracles-bernard-preaching-second-crusade-w137-1275/
description: Page of a late 13th-century French crusade history. The initial shows a tonsured preacher in a long habit addressing listeners under a starred sky; the…
section: Collection
---

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# Estoire d'Eracles page with Bernard of Clairvaux preaching the Second Crusade in the initial (Walters W.137, fol. 180v)

Page of a late 13th-century French crusade history. The initial shows a tonsured preacher in a long habit addressing listeners under a starred sky; the red rubric announces the sermon of Saint Bernard through the land of Syria, and a later pen caption at the head names the preaching as made for Pope Eugenius III, so the page ties the preacher's authority to the pope's.

## Text on the object

Original (French) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
St Bernard prêche la nouvelle Croisade, de la part du Pape Eugène III

le sermon saint bernart par la terre de surie.
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Saint Bernard preaches the new Crusade, on behalf of Pope Eugenius III.

The sermon of Saint Bernard through the land of Syria.
```

The first line is a later pen caption in modern French at the head of the page; the second is the red rubric in Old French. 'bernart' is read from a small script and is slightly uncertain. The main text columns are not transcribed.

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