MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA186.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	13C/4
Reference No	MS Latin 2924, f 2r (detail)
Size	5.1x1.5
Provenance
Present Location	Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale
Bibliography	Ep 174: SBOp 7:388; Scott James 1953, 289-93 ; Catalogue General 1939-88, 3:284
	Dijon 1953, 49; Leclercq 1553, 44; Aurenhammer 1959-67, 337
Illustration From	photo - Library
Other illustrations	Leclercq 1966, 126
	Berlioz 1990, 11
Country	France

Description:
Historiated initial I(nter ecclesias) at the beginning of Bernard's letter (No 174) to the Canons of Lyon regarding their decision to celebrate the feast of the Immaculate Conception which he opposed. The subject of the letter is given in red ink: 'Ad canonicos Lugdunenses de conceptione sancte Marie'. Bernard is depicted in a white cowl under a trilobe arch with his right hand raised and index finger pointing in admonishing two tonsured figures representing the canons.

Description:

Historiated initial I(nter ecclesias) at the beginning of Bernard's letter (No 174) to the Canons of Lyon regarding their decision to celebrate the feast of the Immaculate Conception which he opposed. The subject of the letter is given in red ink: 'Ad canonicos Lugdunenses de conceptione sancte Marie'. Bernard is depicted in a white cowl under a trilobe arch with his right hand raised and index finger pointing in admonishing two tonsured figures representing the canons.