MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA291.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	North Italy
Date	14C/1
Reference No	MS CFM 6, f 125r (detail)
Size	15.5x7.5
Provenance	Cistercian Abbey of Morimondo
Present Location	Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum
Bibliography	Wormald & Giles 1982, 1:11-4
	Leclercq 1953, 42
Illustration From	photo - James Marrow
Other illustrations

Country	Italy

Description:
Antiphonary dated c 1300 (before 1318) from the Cistercian abbey of Morimondo. Within the initial P(rima virtus viri sancti) from the Office for the feast of Bernard, the three-quarter figure of a standing nimbed and bearded Bernard in a white cowl is depicted on the right with a book in his left hand and with his right hand raised in blessing a group of seven tonsured monks in white habits on the left. This compares closely with another earlier miniature from the same abbey (see MA292).

Description:

Antiphonary dated c 1300 (before 1318) from the Cistercian abbey of Morimondo. Within the initial P(rima virtus viri sancti) from the Office for the feast of Bernard, the three-quarter figure of a standing nimbed and bearded Bernard in a white cowl is depicted on the right with a book in his left hand and with his right hand raised in blessing a group of seven tonsured monks in white habits on the left. This compares closely with another earlier miniature from the same abbey (see MA292).