MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - EN64.jpg


Category	Woodcut
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	15C/3
Reference No	MS Cent. V 81, f 121v
Size	7.1x6.0
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; Schmidt 2003, 436-7
	Weinberger 1925, 43-4; Schreiber 1927, 3:40 (1276e); Aurenhammer 1959-67, 339
Illustration From	photo - Library
Other illustrations	Weinberger 1925, pl 8, no 9; Schmidt 2003, ill 41

Country	Germany

Description:
Composite manuscript containing Prayers in German. Belonged to the Dominican nuns of St Katherine, Nuremberg and dated the third quarter of the fifteenth century. A blood-stained Christ has one arm still attached to the Cross and one detached and bending down to embrace the kneeling Bernard, nimbed and in a grey cowl. His crozier is on the left and a pole with vinegar sponge and a spear are on the right. On the green ground is a red book with a mitre above. There is an almost identical image on f 77v (EN63). It is also virtually identical to EN15 although in this image Bernard is not nimbed.

Description:

Composite manuscript containing Prayers in German. Belonged to the Dominican nuns of St Katherine, Nuremberg and dated the third quarter of the fifteenth century. A blood-stained Christ has one arm still attached to the Cross and one detached and bending down to embrace the kneeling Bernard, nimbed and in a grey cowl. His crozier is on the left and a pole with vinegar sponge and a spear are on the right. On the green ground is a red book with a mitre above. There is an almost identical image on f 77v (EN63). It is also virtually identical to EN15 although in this image Bernard is not nimbed.