MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA180.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	15C/4
Reference No	MS Latin 1182, f 118r (detail)
Size
Provenance
Present Location	Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale
Bibliography	Leroquais 1927, 1:LIII & 125-7
	Catalogue General 1939-88, 1:134-5
Illustration From	photo - Library
Other illustrations

Country	France

Description:
A crudely painted miniature in a late fifteenth-century Book of Hours, Use of Rome, Bernard is featured standing in a rural landscape with mountains in the background. He holds an open book in his left hand and looks down on the half-figure of a devil which he holds on a leash in his right hand. Alongside the Seven Verses are introduced in red letters: 'Les sept vers saint b'nard'. The text begins with the blue decorated initial I(llumina oculos meos) on a red ground.

Description:

A crudely painted miniature in a late fifteenth-century Book of Hours, Use of Rome, Bernard is featured standing in a rural landscape with mountains in the background. He holds an open book in his left hand and looks down on the half-figure of a devil which he holds on a leash in his right hand. Alongside the Seven Verses are introduced in red letters: 'Les sept vers saint b'nard'. The text begins with the blue decorated initial I(llumina oculos meos) on a red ground.