MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA050.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	probably Paris
Date	13C/3
Reference No	MS lat. oct. 4, f 4r
Size
Provenance	Eberbach Cistercian Abbey
Present Location	Frankfurt-am-Main, Stadt- und Universitaetsbibliothek
Bibliography	Palmer 1998, 111-3

Illustration From	Palmer 1998, ill 97
Other illustrations	Eberbach 2003, 83

Country	Germany

Description:
Bernard? An initial in the Book of Genesis from a Paris Bible dated second half of the thirteenth century with this seven-part illustration of the Creation below which a figure in a grey habit and with a golden halo is pointing at the initial with his left hand while holding a book in his right hand. Beside him the word 'Monachus' has been added by a later hand. A similar figure in the same manuscript is shown instructing a kneeling monk (see MA49). For comparison, see also MA309.

Description:

Bernard? An initial in the Book of Genesis from a Paris Bible dated second half of the thirteenth century with this seven-part illustration of the Creation below which a figure in a grey habit and with a golden halo is pointing at the initial with his left hand while holding a book in his right hand. Beside him the word 'Monachus' has been added by a later hand. A similar figure in the same manuscript is shown instructing a kneeling monk (see MA49). For comparison, see also MA309.