MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA037.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	workshop diocese of Cambrai
Date	13C/4
Reference No	MS S. n. 12771, f 1r (detail)
Size
Provenance	Nizelles Nuns' Abbey, Nivelles, Brabant
Present Location	Vienna, Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek
Bibliography	SBOp 4:161; Paecht & Thoss 1983, 162-4
	France 1998, 142; v d Gheyn 1901-6
Illustration From	photo - Library
Other illustrations	France 1998, ill 92
	Paecht & Thoss 1983, ill 1
Country	Belgium

Description:
Here Bernard, standing and wearing a grey cowl, has a crozier in his left hand while blessing a group of seven sitting nuns in grey habits and black veils within the initial H(odie) at the opening of his Sermons for Advent. The manuscript is the same format and style as one in the Belgian Royal Library (see MA036). They probably came from the same workshop in the diocese of Cambrai and probably both belonged to Nizelles nuns' abbey and may be the summer and winter halves of the same work. The pictures in the two initials are almost identical, the main difference being that in one Bernard is sitting and the nuns kneeling while in this one Bernard is standing and the nuns sitting.

Description:

Here Bernard, standing and wearing a grey cowl, has a crozier in his left hand while blessing a group of seven sitting nuns in grey habits and black veils within the initial H(odie) at the opening of his Sermons for Advent. The manuscript is the same format and style as one in the Belgian Royal Library (see MA036). They probably came from the same workshop in the diocese of Cambrai and probably both belonged to Nizelles nuns' abbey and may be the summer and winter halves of the same work. The pictures in the two initials are almost identical, the main difference being that in one Bernard is sitting and the nuns kneeling while in this one Bernard is standing and the nuns sitting.