MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA222.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	Herrenalb Cistercian Abbey
Date	15C/3
Reference No	MS Lichtenthal 20, f 220v (detail)
Size
Provenance	Cistercian Nuns' Abbey of Lichtenthal, Baden-Baden
Present Location	Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek
Bibliography	Karlsruhe 1965, 58
	Vaeth 2001, ill 40, Posset 2003,310
Illustration From	photo - Library
Other illustrations	Rueckert & Schwarzmaier 2001, ill 40,Posset 2003,311

Country	Germany

Description:
Cistercian Breviary dated 1472 written at the Cistercian abbey of Herrenalb for the nuns' monastery of Lichtenthal with an Amplexus image. The cross-nimbed Christ with a crown of thorns and a blood-stained body has the arms detached from the cross with the nails still in position. He has his arms joined round the neck of a larger Bernard, nimbed and in a dark grey cowl. Behind him is his crozier. On the left are the lance and pole with a sponge on top and a bucket in which are some of the other 'Arma Christa'. Below is the text of the first Responsory from the first Nocturn from Vigils on the feast of Bernard.

Description:

Cistercian Breviary dated 1472 written at the Cistercian abbey of Herrenalb for the nuns' monastery of Lichtenthal with an Amplexus image. The cross-nimbed Christ with a crown of thorns and a blood-stained body has the arms detached from the cross with the nails still in position. He has his arms joined round the neck of a larger Bernard, nimbed and in a dark grey cowl. Behind him is his crozier. On the left are the lance and pole with a sponge on top and a bucket in which are some of the other 'Arma Christa'. Below is the text of the first Responsory from the first Nocturn from Vigils on the feast of Bernard.