MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - EN63.jpg


Category	Woodcut
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	15C/3
Reference No	MS Cent. V 81, fol 77v
Size	7.1x6
Provenance	Nuremberg, Dominican nuns of St Katherine
Present Location	Nuremberg, Stadtbibliothek
Bibliography	EM 2:7 (Griesser 1961, 102-3); Schneider 1965-7, 1:72-7
	Schreiber 1927, 3:40 (1276e); Aurenhammer 1959-67, 339 Posset 2003,298
Illustration From	photo - Library
Other illustrations	Posset 2003,299

Country	Germany

Description:
A composite manuscript containing Prayers in German. From the Dominican nuns of St Katherine in Nuremberg and dated the third quarter of the fifteenth century. With one hand still attached to the Cross and one detached a blood-stained Christ bends down to embrace Bernard, nimbed and in a grey cowl. His crozier is on the left. On the right is a pole with the sponge of vinegar and a spear. On the green ground is a red book and a mitre. An almost identical miniature is on f 121v (EN64). Also virtually the same as EN15 although in this example he is not nimbed,

Description:

A composite manuscript containing Prayers in German. From the Dominican nuns of St Katherine in Nuremberg and dated the third quarter of the fifteenth century. With one hand still attached to the Cross and one detached a blood-stained Christ bends down to embrace Bernard, nimbed and in a grey cowl. His crozier is on the left. On the right is a pole with the sponge of vinegar and a spear. On the green ground is a red book and a mitre. An almost identical miniature is on f 121v (EN64). Also virtually the same as EN15 although in this example he is not nimbed,