MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA185.jpg

Category Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop
Date 15C/4
Reference No MS Arsenal 438, f 13r
Size
Provenance
Present Location Paris, Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal
Bibliography Catalogue de l'Arsenal 1885-99, 1:296 - Avril & Reynard 1993, 339-40

Dijon 1953, 51; Aurenhammer 1959-67, 340
Illustration From photo - Library
Other illustrations Martin 1925, 29

Dijon 1953, ill 9
Country France
Description:
A Book of Hours in Latin and French from the end of the fifteenth century illustrated by Johannes de Montelucio whose name appears on f 74. A full-page miniature featuring a youthful Bernard with a gold nimbus and wearing an unusual habit, a kind of pink cowl with a white scapular over. He has a book in his left hand and supports a strange crozier under his left arm. He has a pink cord around his right wrist at the end of which is a very large brown horned devil with a tail, white claws and with its fur tipped with gold. The setting is a rocky landscape with cliffs on both sides at the top of which is a castle on the left and a church on the right. The following folio (13v) announces the beginning of the Nine Verses in French. The 'O' Antiphons are given between the verses.