MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA265.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	14C/2
Reference No	Cod. D, f 18r (detail)
Size	6.9 diameter
Provenance	Cistercian Abbey of Settimo, Florence
Present Location	Rome, Cistercian Abbey of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Bibliography	Florence 1990, 36 & 102-4
	Dal Pra 1990, 348; Guidotti 1979, 419-41
Illustration From	Florence 1990, 105 (detail) - whole folio, Florence 1990, 103
Other illustrations	Dal Pra 1990, ill 4
	Calabuig 1993, ill 2; Guidotti 1979, ill 7
Country	Italy

Description:
Gradual from the second quarter of the fourteenth century written in the Cistercian scriptorium of Settimo by the monk Vincentio Monoculo and decorated with many miniatures of saints, including Bernard on the folio which contains the decorated initial I(n medio ecclesie) from his feast with an image of St John Evangelist next to it. At the foot of the folio is a small circular medallion in which Bernard is seated enclosed in a round chair writing with a pen in his right hand and a knife in his left on a piece of parchment. Close to his face is a small white dove, the Holy Spirit inspiring him. He has a 'tuft'.

Description:

Gradual from the second quarter of the fourteenth century written in the Cistercian scriptorium of Settimo by the monk Vincentio Monoculo and decorated with many miniatures of saints, including Bernard on the folio which contains the decorated initial I(n medio ecclesie) from his feast with an image of St John Evangelist next to it. At the foot of the folio is a small circular medallion in which Bernard is seated enclosed in a round chair writing with a pen in his right hand and a knife in his left on a piece of parchment. Close to his face is a small white dove, the Holy Spirit inspiring him. He has a 'tuft'.