MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA040.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	unknown
Date	12C/4
Reference No	MS 5, fol 1v (detail)
Size
Provenance	unknown
Present Location	Nantes, Musee Dobree
Bibliography	Leclercq 1958, 425-50; Leclercq 1953, 44
	Durville 1904, 1:223-61; Aurenhammer 1959-67, 333
Illustration From	Paris 1990, 51
Other illustrations	Leclercq 1958, pl 2 ill 3

Country	France

Description:
Historiated initial from a manuscript from a very early version of Bernard's Sermons in the vernacular dated either end of the twelfth century or early thirteenth century. A person with a golden halo ( Bernard) is seated with head bowed writing at a desk, pen in his right hand and knife in his left. He has a short beard, tonsured but with long hair to the sides. Unusually he is shown wearing a blue tunic with white dots and ample sleeves and a shawl over his left shoulder.

Description:

Historiated initial from a manuscript from a very early version of Bernard's Sermons in the vernacular dated either end of the twelfth century or early thirteenth century. A person with a golden halo ( Bernard) is seated with head bowed writing at a desk, pen in his right hand and knife in his left. He has a short beard, tonsured but with long hair to the sides. Unusually he is shown wearing a blue tunic with white dots and ample sleeves and a shawl over his left shoulder.