MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA022.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	Altzelle Scriptorium
Date	13C
Reference No	MS 375, f 1v
Size	30x18
Provenance	Altzelle, Saxony
Present Location	Leipzig, University Library
Bibliography	Paffrath 1990, 84; Leclercq 1953, 227
	Bruch 1906, 90; Aurenhammer 1959-67, 333
Illustration From	Paffrath 1990, 84
Other illustrations	Schneider 1986, 121
	Bernard de Clairvaux 1953, frontispiece; Joeckle 1997, 70; Winkler 2000, front cover
Country	Germany

Description:
This full-page portrayal of a nimbed Bernard, crozier in his right hand and book in his left, sitting on a faldstool with animal heads and feet and wearing eucharistic vestments (alb and chasuble) was probably produced in the important scriptorium of Altzelle during the abbacy of Ludeger who died after 1234. It introduces Bernard's Sermons on the Song of Songs. The inscription which surrounded the picture has been obliterated, but the letters 'San..i Ber. h. r.' can still be deciphered.

Description:

This full-page portrayal of a nimbed Bernard, crozier in his right hand and book in his left, sitting on a faldstool with animal heads and feet and wearing eucharistic vestments (alb and chasuble) was probably produced in the important scriptorium of Altzelle during the abbacy of Ludeger who died after 1234. It introduces Bernard's Sermons on the Song of Songs. The inscription which surrounded the picture has been obliterated, but the letters 'San..i Ber. h. r.' can still be deciphered.