MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA139.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	Matteo di Ser Cambio
Date	14C/4
Reference No	H P Kraus Collection, f 35 r
Size	9x8.5
Provenance	Perugia
Present Location	not known
Bibliography	Guenther & Ferrini Cat 1999, No 9; H P Kraus Cat No 95, 58-61
	London 1908, 89; Polo 1979, 543-51
Illustration From	H P Krauss Cat No 95, frontispiece
Other illustrations	Polo 1979, ill 3

Country	Italy

Description:
In a manuscript from Perugia dated 1375 containing St Augustine 'Soliloquia', pseudo-St Bernard 'de conscientia aedificandi' and St Anselm 'Orationes,' this half-page miniature prefaces the treatise attributed to Bernard, depicted bearded, seated on a bench, reading a book under an arcade of pink Romanesque architecture. Around the whole page is a full illuminated border of leafy scrolls with a bird and gold ball decoration. The text begins with decorated initial C(onscientia) on a gold ground.

Description:

In a manuscript from Perugia dated 1375 containing St Augustine 'Soliloquia', pseudo-St Bernard 'de conscientia aedificandi' and St Anselm 'Orationes,' this half-page miniature prefaces the treatise attributed to Bernard, depicted bearded, seated on a bench, reading a book under an arcade of pink Romanesque architecture. Around the whole page is a full illuminated border of leafy scrolls with a bird and gold ball decoration. The text begins with decorated initial C(onscientia) on a gold ground.