MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA293.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	14C/3
Reference No	MS CFM 3-1954, f 247v (detail)
Size
Provenance
Present Location	Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum
Bibliography	Wormald & Giles 1982, 2:479-99

Illustration From	photo - James Marrow
Other illustrations

Country	France

Description:
French Book of Hours (Use of Paris) with Burgundian additions made for Philippe le Hardi, duke of Burgundy after 1470. Among the suffrages are one for Bernard, headed in red ink 'Memoire de saint bernart'. The nimbed Bernard is in a white cowl with the hood over his head, has a crozier in his left hand and a red book in his right. A miniature of St Augustine on the same folio introduces his suffrage.

Description:

French Book of Hours (Use of Paris) with Burgundian additions made for Philippe le Hardi, duke of Burgundy after 1470. Among the suffrages are one for Bernard, headed in red ink 'Memoire de saint bernart'. The nimbed Bernard is in a white cowl with the hood over his head, has a crozier in his left hand and a red book in his right. A miniature of St Augustine on the same folio introduces his suffrage.