MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA098.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	16C/1
Reference No	MS Lat. Liturg. g.5., p 156
Size
Provenance
Present Location	Oxford, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Bibliography	Paecht & Alexander 1966-73, 1:29, No 393

Illustration From	slide - Library
Other illustrations

Country	Belgium

Description:
From a Flemish manuscript of the Office of the Holy Ghost from c 1500. In a half-page miniature Bernard is shown in a white cowl standing with a crozier and a chain holding the devil at his feet in his left hand and an open book in his right hand. Behind him is a doorway with a red background. Below is the text of the opening words ot the Eight Verses of St Bernard introduced in red letters - 'Octo versus sancti bernardi'. The border is decorated with a bird, a carnation, gentian and other flowers, and red currants.

Description:

From a Flemish manuscript of the Office of the Holy Ghost from c 1500. In a half-page miniature Bernard is shown in a white cowl standing with a crozier and a chain holding the devil at his feet in his left hand and an open book in his right hand. Behind him is a doorway with a red background. Below is the text of the opening words ot the Eight Verses of St Bernard introduced in red letters - 'Octo versus sancti bernardi'. The border is decorated with a bird, a carnation, gentian and other flowers, and red currants.