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Seventeen surviving tracts are mostly ) and his partisans).

Of broader interest is Bernold's chronicle, ''Chronicon'' the latter part is a terse record of contemporary events by a knowing and intelligent observer in the extreme Papal camp.

Bernold was the author of ''Micrologus de ecclesiasticis observationibus'' (''ca'' 1085), a lengthy commentary on the papal liturgy that became an important medieval liturgical treatise. Thanks to him, the German church was provided with a fairly common sacramentary throughout the Empire. The form of the mass given in ''Micrologus'' was established for Hungary, too, about 1100, by order of the local bishops.


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