MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA240.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	Italian
Date	15C/3
Reference No	MS Vat. lat. 658, f 113r (detail)
Size	7.3x5.7
Provenance	Rome
Present Location	Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica
Bibliography	SBOp 3:81; Leclercq 1953, 45
	Vattasso & Cavalieri 1902, 1:514-5; Vatican 1950, 10; Vatican 1980, 41
Illustration From	photo - Library
Other illustrations

Country	Italy

Description:
One of seven historiated initials featuring Bernard in this composite manuscript the principal part of which contains 'De consideratione' which was commissioned by Pope Nicolas V in 1452 (see also MA234-9). The large blue and gold initial V(enerabili patri) opens Bernard's treatise 'dictus Apologeticus', the most frequently used title of his famous 'Apologia'. The three-quarter figure of Bernard with the white hood of his cowl over his head holds a red open book in his left hand - his work - to which he points with the index finger of his right hand. Very similar to MA239.

Description:

One of seven historiated initials featuring Bernard in this composite manuscript the principal part of which contains 'De consideratione' which was commissioned by Pope Nicolas V in 1452 (see also MA234-9). The large blue and gold initial V(enerabili patri) opens Bernard's treatise 'dictus Apologeticus', the most frequently used title of his famous 'Apologia'. The three-quarter figure of Bernard with the white hood of his cowl over his head holds a red open book in his left hand - his work - to which he points with the index finger of his right hand. Very similar to MA239.