MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA148.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	French
Date	15C/3
Reference No	MS HM 1143, f 140v
Size
Provenance
Present Location	San Marino, California, The Huntington Library
Bibliography	Dutschke 1989, 462-5

Illustration From	photo - by permission of The Huntington Library
Other illustrations

Country	France

Description:
From a French Book of Hours from the second half of the fifteenth century, Use of Rome perhaps from the diocese of Tours, among the suffrages to the saints (ff 135v-144) a large miniature above four lines of text featuring, on the right, a bearded St James with the pilgrim's staff and hat and holding an open book held outwards towards Bernard on the left. Bernard is wearing a white tunic and black scapular and holds an open red book in both hands.

Description:

From a French Book of Hours from the second half of the fifteenth century, Use of Rome perhaps from the diocese of Tours, among the suffrages to the saints (ff 135v-144) a large miniature above four lines of text featuring, on the right, a bearded St James with the pilgrim's staff and hat and holding an open book held outwards towards Bernard on the left. Bernard is wearing a white tunic and black scapular and holds an open red book in both hands.