MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA026.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	unknown
Date	12C/4
Reference No	MS MSB f 1r (detail)
Size
Provenance	unknown
Present Location	Mount Saint Bernard Abbey, Leicestershire, England
Bibliography	Morson 1954, 30-4, 214-21; Leclercq 1953, 43; Dijon 1953, 82
	France 1998, 39-40; Aurenhammer 1959-67, 333
Illustration From	Paris 1990, 51
Other illustrations	France 1998, ill 20
	Quarre 1953, ill 4; Bernard de Clairvaux 1953, facing 22
Country	Germany ?

Description:
One of the earliest representations of Bernard featured in eucharistic vestments of alb, blue chasuble with white spots and stole in a miniature from the beginning of the first book of the 'Vita Prima' by William of St Thierry. He holds a crozier in his left hand and his right hand is raised in a teaching mode with the index finger pointing. The manuscript was probably from a Cistercian abbey, possibly German or Flemish.

Description:

One of the earliest representations of Bernard featured in eucharistic vestments of alb, blue chasuble with white spots and stole in a miniature from the beginning of the first book of the 'Vita Prima' by William of St Thierry. He holds a crozier in his left hand and his right hand is raised in a teaching mode with the index finger pointing. The manuscript was probably from a Cistercian abbey, possibly German or Flemish.