MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA145.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	15C/4
Reference No	MS 50/66, f 106r (detail)
Size
Provenance	Cistercian Abbey of Ter Duinen (Les Dunes)
Present Location	Bruges, Archief Grootseminarie
Bibliography	Bruges 1927, 82-4
	Hoste 1990, 171-9
Illustration From	photo - Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique, Brussels
Other illustrations

Country	Belgium

Description:
Historiated initial I(n medio ecclesie) from the beginning of the Mass for the feast of Bernard from a late fifteenth-century or early sixteenth-century Cistercian Missal commissioned by Abbot Christiaan de Hondt (1495-1509) of Les Dunes whose arms appear in the manuscript. Bernard is kneeling before the Virgin and Child in a Lactation scene with the jet of milk from the Virgin's breast clearly visible. Border with naturalistic flowers and a butterfly.

Description:

Historiated initial I(n medio ecclesie) from the beginning of the Mass for the feast of Bernard from a late fifteenth-century or early sixteenth-century Cistercian Missal commissioned by Abbot Christiaan de Hondt (1495-1509) of Les Dunes whose arms appear in the manuscript. Bernard is kneeling before the Virgin and Child in a Lactation scene with the jet of milk from the Virgin's breast clearly visible. Border with naturalistic flowers and a butterfly.