MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA018.jpg

Category Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop Cambrai or Tournai
Date 14C/3
Reference No MS 11053/4, f 241r (detail)
Size
Provenance
Present Location Brussels, Bibliotheque Royale Albert 1er
Bibliography Gaspar & Lyna 1984-9, 1:290-1

Gheyn 1901-6, 1:87-8; Leclercq 1953, 42
Illustration From photo - Courtauld Institute
Other illustrations

Country Belgium
Description:
In a manuscript of Victor de Capua's Concordance of the Four Gospels from c 1360 which also has the pseudo-Bernard Meditations in French (f 242-98), at the opening of which Bernard is depicted sitting at a desk reading within the initial M. In 1405 the manuscript belonged to Philip the Bold and in 1420 to John without Fear. Bernard has 'tuft'.