MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - EN40.jpg

Category Woodcut
Origin: artist/workshop Anon; printed by Lorenzo Morgiani & Giovanni da Magonza
Date 15C/4
Reference No
Size 7.7x11.0
Provenance Florence
Present Location
Bibliography Hain 1826-38, 2898

Illustration From Sander 1942, 6: no 551
Other illustrations Aubel 1966, ill 6

Kristeller 1897, 19
Country Italy
Description:
Title page of Bernard's Sermons in Tuscan ('Sermoni vulgari devotissimi di Sancto Bernardo') printed in Florence 27 January 1495 by Lorenzo Morgiani and Giovanni da Magonza. A bearded and nimbed Bernard accompanied by a group of his monks is shown outside a church handing his Sermons to a kneeling Cistercian nun accompanied by three other nuns, all in white habits and black veils.