MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA294.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	15C/3
Reference No	MS CFM 39-1950, f 229v (detail)
Size	2.4x1.9
Provenance
Present Location	Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum
Bibliography	Wormald & Giles 1982, 2:436-41
	Koenig 1982, 154-6
Illustration From	photo - James Marrow
Other illustrations

Country	France

Description:
Latin Book of Hours (Use of Paris) of Louis of Anjou, Bastard of Maine (d 1489) with 15 Joys and 7 Requests in French. Probably made for his marriage 1464. Prayer to Bernard headed in blue 'De sant bernart' has a tiny miniature showing Bernard in a three-quarter length figure, nimbed, in a rosa dalmatic, and carrying a black book with gold edges in his left hand, against a blue background with a gold edge. Border on three sides with gold leaves and blue flowers.

Description:

Latin Book of Hours (Use of Paris) of Louis of Anjou, Bastard of Maine (d 1489) with 15 Joys and 7 Requests in French. Probably made for his marriage 1464. Prayer to Bernard headed in blue 'De sant bernart' has a tiny miniature showing Bernard in a three-quarter length figure, nimbed, in a rosa dalmatic, and carrying a black book with gold edges in his left hand, against a blue background with a gold edge. Border on three sides with gold leaves and blue flowers.