MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - EN44.jpg


Category	Woodcut
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	16C/1
Reference No	MS 310, tipped in frontispiece
Size
Provenance	Benedictine Abbey of St Trond
Present Location	Liege, University Library
Bibliography

Illustration From	photo - Library
Other illustrations

Country	Belgium

Description:
Single leaf woodcut tipped into front of a manuscript of 'Otium literarium triennii excerpta ex divi Bernardi Claraevallensis abbatis primi melliflui, et religiosissimi ecclesiae doctoris operibus' from the beginning of the sixteenth-century and belonging to the Benedictine abbey of St Trond. A lactation scene in a vaulted chamber with the inscripttion below: 'BER. MONSTRA TE ESSE MATREM'. See also EN68.

Description:

Single leaf woodcut tipped into front of a manuscript of 'Otium literarium triennii excerpta ex divi Bernardi Claraevallensis abbatis primi melliflui, et religiosissimi ecclesiae doctoris operibus' from the beginning of the sixteenth-century and belonging to the Benedictine abbey of St Trond. A lactation scene in a vaulted chamber with the inscripttion below: 'BER. MONSTRA TE ESSE MATREM'. See also EN68.