MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA219.jpg

Category Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop
Date 15C/4
Reference No MS Lit 15, f 295r (detail)
Size 10x9.5
Provenance Langheim Cistercian Abbey
Present Location Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek
Bibliography Posset 2003,328

Illustration From photocopy - Library
Other illustrations Posset 2003,329

Country Germany
Description:
Historiated initial I(n medio ecclesie) from the beginning of the Mass for the feast of Bernard in a Gradual dated 1496 from the Cistercian Abbey of Langheim. An Amplexus scene with the arms of Clairvaux surmounted by a mitre on the ground. Bernard has 'tuft'.