MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA190.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	15C
Reference No	MS 619, f 176r (detail)
Size	4.6x4.9
Provenance
Present Location	Paris, Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal
Bibliography	Catalogue de l'Arsenal 1885-99, 1:466
	Leroquais 1924, 177
Illustration From	photo - Library
Other illustrations

Country	France

Description:
A fifteenth-century Cistercian Missal with 36 historiated initials, among them within the initial I(n medio ecllesie) at the feast of Bernard, he is shown seated, nimbed and wearing a mitre and red cope with gold edging over his white alb. He has a crozier in his left hand, while he is blessing a monk kneeling before him with his right hand. Behind is a wall and a garden. The arms of a bishop appears on three folios - perhaps those of the donor.

Description:

A fifteenth-century Cistercian Missal with 36 historiated initials, among them within the initial I(n medio ecllesie) at the feast of Bernard, he is shown seated, nimbed and wearing a mitre and red cope with gold edging over his white alb. He has a crozier in his left hand, while he is blessing a monk kneeling before him with his right hand. Behind is a wall and a garden. The arms of a bishop appears on three folios - perhaps those of the donor.