MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA052.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	15C/4
Reference No	MS Theol. lat. fol. 409, f 72v
Size	13.5x9.9
Provenance	Herrenalb Cistercian Abbey
Present Location	Berlin, Staatsbibliothek - Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Bibliography	Vaeth 2001, 89-107;Posset 2003,318

Illustration From	photo - Library
Other illustrations	Schwenk 1983, ill 35; Posset 2003,319
	Rueckert & Schwarzmaier 2001, ill 24
Country	Germany

Description:
One of 30 Full-page miniatures in Prayer Book from the Cistercian monastery of Herrenalb written by the monk Johannes Zuern but illustrated by a number of artists. A corpulent Bernard in a black cowl knees at the foot of the Cross from which the arms of Christ are detached and placed round Bernard. The two heads meet. The Cross is surmounted by the inscription INRI and the date 1484. Bernard's gold crozier, a red book, and the arms of Herrenalb - very similar to Clairvaux, but with a crozier added - lie on the ground. Bernard has 'tuft'.

Description:

One of 30 Full-page miniatures in Prayer Book from the Cistercian monastery of Herrenalb written by the monk Johannes Zuern but illustrated by a number of artists. A corpulent Bernard in a black cowl knees at the foot of the Cross from which the arms of Christ are detached and placed round Bernard. The two heads meet. The Cross is surmounted by the inscription INRI and the date 1484. Bernard's gold crozier, a red book, and the arms of Herrenalb - very similar to Clairvaux, but with a crozier added - lie on the ground. Bernard has 'tuft'.