MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA143.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci
Date	14C/3
Reference No	Inv. M 35, f 56v
Size
Provenance	Camaldolese Abbey of Santa Maria degli Angeli
Present Location	Lisbon, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian
Bibliography	New York 1994, 131-4
	Berenson 1969, 136; Kaftal 1952, 166
Illustration From	photo - Museum
Other illustrations	New York 1994, ill 48; Berenson 1969, ill 233
	Kaftal 1952, ill 180; Levi d'Ancona 1994, 115
Country	Italy

Description:
In a Gradual (Sanctorale) completed in 1370 from the Camaldolese abbey of Santa Maria degli Angeli with illuminations which may be little later by the monk Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci. It is now dispersed in various collections. This shows St Benedict enthroned with eight Benedictine saints, probably Romuald, Celestine V, Gregory the Great, Maurus, Bernard, Leo IV, John Gualbert and Placid. The full-page illumination introduces the liturgy for the feast of St Benedict (March 21).

Description:

In a Gradual (Sanctorale) completed in 1370 from the Camaldolese abbey of Santa Maria degli Angeli with illuminations which may be little later by the monk Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci. It is now dispersed in various collections. This shows St Benedict enthroned with eight Benedictine saints, probably Romuald, Celestine V, Gregory the Great, Maurus, Bernard, Leo IV, John Gualbert and Placid. The full-page illumination introduces the liturgy for the feast of St Benedict (March 21).