MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA255.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	Flemish
Date	15C/4
Reference No	MS KRP.A.1, f 88r
Size	4.3x4.8
Provenance	Hainault?
Present Location	London, Victoria & Albert Museum, National Art Library
Bibliography

Illustration From	photo - JF
Other illustrations

Country	Belgium

Description:
One of 12 small miniatures in a Book of Hours, Use of Rome, dated c. 1480 and perhaps from Hainault has a nimbed Bernard in a white tunic and black scapular with an open book in his right hand and a standing devil on a chain in his left as the last of 17 memoria of saints in the form of the Eight Verses introduced above the miniature by 'octo versus sci bernardi' in red ink. Within a gold border and in a landscape with a church on the left.

Description:

One of 12 small miniatures in a Book of Hours, Use of Rome, dated c. 1480 and perhaps from Hainault has a nimbed Bernard in a white tunic and black scapular with an open book in his right hand and a standing devil on a chain in his left as the last of 17 memoria of saints in the form of the Eight Verses introduced above the miniature by 'octo versus sci bernardi' in red ink. Within a gold border and in a landscape with a church on the left.