MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA110.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	South Netherlands
Date	16C/1
Reference No	MS 74, f 148v
Size
Provenance	Baudeloo Cistercian Abbey
Present Location	Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek
Bibliography	Masai 1952, 279-84; Hendrix 1990, 56-61; Edinburgh 1963, 59-60
	Leclercq 1953, 43; Aurenhammer 1959-67, 334
Illustration From	photo - Library
Other illustrations	Masai 1952, ill 32; Hendrix 1990, ill 13; Sabbe, Lambrerigts & Gislelinck 1990, ill 4

Country	Belgium

Description:
One of three images of Bernard in the richly-decorated Missal from Baudeloo. Commissioned bt Abbot Peter van Heetvelde, the 22nd abbot, and written between his election in 1490 and 1504, and probably nearer the latter date. The abbot is represented kneeling in the bottom left border with his coat of arms at his feet in a full-page miniature of the Crucifixion with Mary and Saint John. He is supported by a standing Bernard with a crozier in his left hand and his right hand on the abbot's shoulder. The border is decorated in the style typical of the period, with flowers, insects, and birds. The manuscript contains 340 miniatures and must have been the work of a large lay workshop. See also MA 111 & MA 112.

Description:

One of three images of Bernard in the richly-decorated Missal from Baudeloo. Commissioned bt Abbot Peter van Heetvelde, the 22nd abbot, and written between his election in 1490 and 1504, and probably nearer the latter date. The abbot is represented kneeling in the bottom left border with his coat of arms at his feet in a full-page miniature of the Crucifixion with Mary and Saint John. He is supported by a standing Bernard with a crozier in his left hand and his right hand on the abbot's shoulder. The border is decorated in the style typical of the period, with flowers, insects, and birds. The manuscript contains 340 miniatures and must have been the work of a large lay workshop. See also MA 111 & MA 112.