MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA253.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	Nicolas of Bologna and disciples
Date	14C/2
Reference No	MS Vat. lat. 8541, f 89r (detail)
Size	8.4x6.5 (each image excl. border - four images on folio 21.5x16.7)
Provenance	Court of Hungary
Present Location	Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica
Bibliography	VP5:2: 8-13 (PL 185:355-9); LA 220; Karl 1929, 185-205
	Dal Pra 1990, 351-4; Schmitt 1990, 156
Illustration From	photo - Library
Other illustrations	Karl 1929, ill 4
	Dal Pra 1990, ill 7
Country	Italy

Description:
The last of eight images of Bernard from a Legendary illustrated by Nicolas of Bologna dated 1330-40 and featuring the lives of 51 saints. Four are on this folio and four on the preceding facing folio, each image surrounded by foliate decoration. The bottom right features the burial of Bernard. He is placed on a bier in his cowl with the hood over the head. Behind him are four monks, and in the centre a cleric presiding, perhaps a bishop, with a long beard in a blue chasuble or cope. There are three vaulted doors behind and a cross on the wall. The inscription reads: 'Ultima: Quomodo fuit sepultus' (The last one - how he was buried). See also MA246-52.

Description:

The last of eight images of Bernard from a Legendary illustrated by Nicolas of Bologna dated 1330-40 and featuring the lives of 51 saints. Four are on this folio and four on the preceding facing folio, each image surrounded by foliate decoration. The bottom right features the burial of Bernard. He is placed on a bier in his cowl with the hood over the head. Behind him are four monks, and in the centre a cleric presiding, perhaps a bishop, with a long beard in a blue chasuble or cope. There are three vaulted doors behind and a cross on the wall. The inscription reads: 'Ultima: Quomodo fuit sepultus' (The last one - how he was buried). See also MA246-52.