MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA196.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	Bruges
Date	15C/3
Reference No	MS Francais 311, f 206v (detail)
Size	7.2x7.9
Provenance
Present Location	Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale
Bibliography	Catalogue des Manuscrits Francais 1868-92, 1:25
	Dijon 1953, 50; Leclercq 1953, 227
Illustration From	photo - Library
Other illustrations

Country	Belgium

Description:
From manuscript dated 1455 of the fourth and last volume of the 'Mirror of History' by Vincent de Beauvais and translated to French by Jean de Vignay. The miniature is at the beginning of the section listing Bernard's works. Within a gold border a nimbed Bernard in a white cowl is depicted on a high-backed chair at a desk writing on a roll of parchment which he holds with his left hand. An inkwell and an open book lie on the table and two more books and a piece of parchment lie on a shelf on the wall. Set in a room with a large open window with a blue sky and flanked by two columns. There is another image of Bernard in the same manuscript - see MA197.

Description:

From manuscript dated 1455 of the fourth and last volume of the 'Mirror of History' by Vincent de Beauvais and translated to French by Jean de Vignay. The miniature is at the beginning of the section listing Bernard's works. Within a gold border a nimbed Bernard in a white cowl is depicted on a high-backed chair at a desk writing on a roll of parchment which he holds with his left hand. An inkwell and an open book lie on the table and two more books and a piece of parchment lie on a shelf on the wall. Set in a room with a large open window with a blue sky and flanked by two columns. There is another image of Bernard in the same manuscript - see MA197.