MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA010.jpg

Category Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop Bruges
Date 15C
Reference No L52/35/15, f 191v (detail)
Size 4x3.7
Provenance Flanders
Present Location unknown - Sotheby sale 5/12/1989, lot 122
Bibliography Sotheby Catalogue 5/12/1989

Illustration From photo - Courtauld Institute
Other illustrations

Country Belgium ?
Description:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome, 1485-95. One of 71 small miniatures with three-quarter border. Bernard is in a black cowl with the devil at his feet in a hilly landscape in a panel at the beginning of Bernard's Eight Verses in Latin. The seven 'O' Antiphons from the last days of Advent are interspersed between the verses.