MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA002.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	Scriptorium Zwettl
Date	12C/4
Reference No	MS 194 f 3r (detail)
Size
Provenance	Zwettl Cistercian Abbey
Present Location	Zwettl, Stiftsbibliothek
Bibliography	Ziegler 1985-92, 2:251-9; Paffrath 1990, 78; Buberl 1940, 202
	France 1998, 33
Illustration From	Paffrath 1990, 78
Other illustrations	France 1998, ill 17; Jaritz 2000, ill 2

Country	Austria

Description:
From 1175-6 this is one of the earliest representations of Bernard - from shortly after his canonization and it is a relatively rare example of him depicted as a priest in the process of celebrating Mass. He is portrayed in the initial T(e igitur) in a Missal at the beginning of the canon of the Mass as the celebrant dressed in an alb, chasuble and stole, before an altar. He holds the Chalice in his left hand and blesses it with his right hand. The Host lies on the altar.

Description:

From 1175-6 this is one of the earliest representations of Bernard - from shortly after his canonization and it is a relatively rare example of him depicted as a priest in the process of celebrating Mass. He is portrayed in the initial T(e igitur) in a Missal at the beginning of the canon of the Mass as the celebrant dressed in an alb, chasuble and stole, before an altar. He holds the Chalice in his left hand and blesses it with his right hand. The Host lies on the altar.