MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA045.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	Master of Rolin II
Date	15C/3
Reference No	MS W 285, f 100
Size
Provenance	Paris or Loire region?
Present Location	Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery
Bibliography	Wieck 1988, 193; Koenig 1988, 256
	Randall 1989-92, 2:174-80; Randall 1987, 130; De Ricci 1935, 794
Illustration From	Wieck 1988, ill 81
Other illustrations

Country	France

Description:
Use of Paris Book of Hours of Pope Leo X dated c 1470 (incomplete) with three large and ten small miniatures. Includes 7 Verses of Bernard, illustrated with a picture of Bernard in his study, seated at a gilt canopied chair, feet on stool, inscribing the opening words 'illumina ocu[los]' on a scroll across his lap. An open book is propped up on a hexagonal gold table at the back, topped by a lectern, with three closed books in dark red bindings on a similar stand at the front on the right.

Description:

Use of Paris Book of Hours of Pope Leo X dated c 1470 (incomplete) with three large and ten small miniatures. Includes 7 Verses of Bernard, illustrated with a picture of Bernard in his study, seated at a gilt canopied chair, feet on stool, inscribing the opening words 'illumina ocu[los]' on a scroll across his lap. An open book is propped up on a hexagonal gold table at the back, topped by a lectern, with three closed books in dark red bindings on a similar stand at the front on the right.