MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA212.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	Cistercian Abbey of Cambron ?
Date	13C/4
Reference No	MS W 760, f 113v (detail)
Size
Provenance	Cistercian Nuns' Abbey of Beaupre
Present Location	Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery
Bibliography	Randall 1989-97, 3:25-56; Randall 1987, 133; Yates Thompson 1916, 7
	Calkins 1983, 234-42; Schmitt 1990, 154
Illustration From	photo - Walters Art Gallery
Other illustrations	Yates Thompson 1916, ill 19

Country	Belgium

Description:
One of 14 historiated initials in Volume 2 (covering the period from the Assumption to Advent) of the three volumes of the Beaupre Antiphonary which may have been made at Cambron in the 1280's. Within the initial P(rima virtus viri sancti), the first Responsory of the first Nocturn from Vigils on the feast of Bernard, he is depicted in a frontal position, with red nimbus, in a brown cowl, and carrying a green book in his right hand and an orange crozier in his left. On each side is a kneeling nun in grey habits, black veils and white wimples. The nun at the left looks straight ahead, the nun at the right looks up. The three figures are on a gold ground. In the borders: a hybrid with musical instrument and another dancing, and the head of a beast with orange cap.

Description:

One of 14 historiated initials in Volume 2 (covering the period from the Assumption to Advent) of the three volumes of the Beaupre Antiphonary which may have been made at Cambron in the 1280's. Within the initial P(rima virtus viri sancti), the first Responsory of the first Nocturn from Vigils on the feast of Bernard, he is depicted in a frontal position, with red nimbus, in a brown cowl, and carrying a green book in his right hand and an orange crozier in his left. On each side is a kneeling nun in grey habits, black veils and white wimples. The nun at the left looks straight ahead, the nun at the right looks up. The three figures are on a gold ground. In the borders: a hybrid with musical instrument and another dancing, and the head of a beast with orange cap.