MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA096.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	Gielis van den Hecke
Date	16C/1
Reference No	MS Douce 373, f 19r (detail)
Size	42.7x30 (whole folio)
Provenance	Priory van Zeven Bronen (Septem Fontium), Brussels
Present Location	Oxford, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Bibliography	Paecht & Alexander 1966-73, 1:30, No 402

Illustration From	slide - Library
Other illustrations

Country	Belgium

Description:
The poems written in Brussels 1520-30 in Latin and Dutch on paper by Joos van den Hecke with pen and ink drawings in the style of early block books by his uncle, Gielis van den Hecke, and made for the Priory of Zeven Bronen. Each drawing illustrates the ideas contained in the verses on the opposite page. The drawing on f 19 is entitled 'Religionis ergo' and is an elaborate diagram of many concentric circles, each divided into petal-shaped components, generally nine in number, each with a drawing of a saint, a bishop, or a biblical character, each identified by their name, and with Christ Crucified in the centre. Among the saints are Basil, Paul, Maur, Anthony, and Bruno, and, shown here in the lower left corner of the folio, Bernard and Monica.

Description:

The poems written in Brussels 1520-30 in Latin and Dutch on paper by Joos van den Hecke with pen and ink drawings in the style of early block books by his uncle, Gielis van den Hecke, and made for the Priory of Zeven Bronen. Each drawing illustrates the ideas contained in the verses on the opposite page. The drawing on f 19 is entitled 'Religionis ergo' and is an elaborate diagram of many concentric circles, each divided into petal-shaped components, generally nine in number, each with a drawing of a saint, a bishop, or a biblical character, each identified by their name, and with Christ Crucified in the centre. Among the saints are Basil, Paul, Maur, Anthony, and Bruno, and, shown here in the lower left corner of the folio, Bernard and Monica.