MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA230.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	Umbrian School
Date	13C/4
Reference No	MS 970, f 2r (detail)
Size	4.3x4.3
Provenance	Franciscan Convent of Santa Maria in Aracoeli
Present Location	Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense
Bibliography	Florence 1990, 38

Illustration From	photo - Library
Other illustrations	Florence 1990, ill 12; Tomea 1992, 24

Country	Italy

Description:
A compostite manuscript containing Bernard's Sermons on the Song of Songs and 'De diligendo Deo' from Umbria dated c 1290. Within the rosa initial V(obis fratres) - the opening words of Sermon 1 - a bearded Bernard in a white cowl is shown sitting with an open book on a lectern before him. His right hand is raised in a teaching mode. Two tonsured monks in white cowls are sitting in front of him and looking up at him. The one in the front holds an open book with both hands.

Description:

A compostite manuscript containing Bernard's Sermons on the Song of Songs and 'De diligendo Deo' from Umbria dated c 1290. Within the rosa initial V(obis fratres) - the opening words of Sermon 1 - a bearded Bernard in a white cowl is shown sitting with an open book on a lectern before him. His right hand is raised in a teaching mode. Two tonsured monks in white cowls are sitting in front of him and looking up at him. The one in the front holds an open book with both hands.