MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA220.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	15C/4
Reference No	MS Lit. 30, f 14v (detail)
Size	9.2x.9.8
Provenance	Langheim Cistercian Abbey
Present Location	Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek
Bibliography	Posset 2003,334

Illustration From	photocopy - Library
Other illustrations	Posset 2003,335

Country	Germany

Description:
Historiated initial P(rima virtus viri sancti) from the first Responsory of the first Nocturn for the feast of Bernard from a Cistercian Antiphonary. A much smaller Christ has his arms detached from a T-Cross and placed around the shoulders of Bernard who holds the lifeless-looking body of Christ. The two heads touch. Bernard's crozier and mitre lie on the ground, and what appears like a small white dog is at Bernard's feet.

Description:

Historiated initial P(rima virtus viri sancti) from the first Responsory of the first Nocturn for the feast of Bernard from a Cistercian Antiphonary. A much smaller Christ has his arms detached from a T-Cross and placed around the shoulders of Bernard who holds the lifeless-looking body of Christ. The two heads touch. Bernard's crozier and mitre lie on the ground, and what appears like a small white dog is at Bernard's feet.