MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA257.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	Delft, Master of Beatrijs van Assendelft's Vita Christi
Date	15C/4
Reference No	MS BPH 158, f 63r
Size
Provenance	Delft, probably Convent of St Agnes
Present Location	Amsterdam, Biblioteca Philosophica Hermetica
Bibliography	Sotheby Catalogue Sale 18/6/1991, Lot 138
	Defoer, Korteweg, & Wuestefeld 1990, 274
Illustration From	photo - Library
Other illustrations

Country	Netherlands

Description:
Prayerbook of Beatrijs van Assendelft in Dutch dated c 1480 and probably from the Convent of St Agnes, Delft, has 7 large initials with full borders and 6 historiated initials with three-quarter borders, one of them within a blue initial 'O' of Christ leaning from the Cross to embrace a nimbed Bernard in a brown cowl and with his crozier under his right arm. In a hilly landscape with trees. The foliate border includes a parrot, a deer, and a half-length angel.

Description:

Prayerbook of Beatrijs van Assendelft in Dutch dated c 1480 and probably from the Convent of St Agnes, Delft, has 7 large initials with full borders and 6 historiated initials with three-quarter borders, one of them within a blue initial 'O' of Christ leaning from the Cross to embrace a nimbed Bernard in a brown cowl and with his crozier under his right arm. In a hilly landscape with trees. The foliate border includes a parrot, a deer, and a half-length angel.