MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA094.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	14C
Reference No	MS Lyall 85, f 1v
Size
Provenance
Present Location	Oxford, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Bibliography	SBOp 3:269; Paecht & Alexander 1966-73, 1:22, No 294
	Leclercq 1953, 45 & 226; Dijon 1953, 50
Illustration From	photo - Library
Other illustrations	Paris 1990, 14; Leclercq 1953, ill 5; Paecht & Alexander 1966-73, 1:ill 23
	Leclercq 1966, 125; Leclercq 1976, 36
Country	Belgium

Description:
At the beginning of William of Tournai's 'Flores Sancti Bernardi' a full-page miniature of St Benedict in a black cowl on the left and Bernard in a grey cowl on the right, each carrying a crozier in the left hand and an open book in the right. The inscription on Bernard's book is 'Prelatum tamquam Deum in his que non sunt contra Deum audire debemus' from 'De praecepto et dispensatione', 9:21 (SBOp 3:269), while Benedict's is the opening words of the Rule: 'Ausculta o fili precepta magistri'. Each stands under a canopy with a quinquefoil arch with a crocketed pediment pierced by a four-lobed cusp. Each canopy has an Early English window on either side with two lights under a low lobed cusp. The lights and cusps are orange, the canopies bright yellow. The flesh is delicately tinted. Both figures are tonsured and bearded.

Description:

At the beginning of William of Tournai's 'Flores Sancti Bernardi' a full-page miniature of St Benedict in a black cowl on the left and Bernard in a grey cowl on the right, each carrying a crozier in the left hand and an open book in the right. The inscription on Bernard's book is 'Prelatum tamquam Deum in his que non sunt contra Deum audire debemus' from 'De praecepto et dispensatione', 9:21 (SBOp 3:269), while Benedict's is the opening words of the Rule: 'Ausculta o fili precepta magistri'. Each stands under a canopy with a quinquefoil arch with a crocketed pediment pierced by a four-lobed cusp. Each canopy has an Early English window on either side with two lights under a low lobed cusp. The lights and cusps are orange, the canopies bright yellow. The flesh is delicately tinted. Both figures are tonsured and bearded.