MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA316.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	15C
Reference No	MDG 273
Size
Provenance	Poblet Cistercian Abbey
Present Location	Girona, Museo Diocesano de Girona
Bibliography

Illustration From	photo - Museum
Other illustrations

Country	Spain

Description:
The fifteenth-century Martyrology has a circular miniature at the feast of Bernard indicated by the letters in red above: 'XII kalendris septembris'. The bearded figure of Bernard in a black cowl and carrying a gold crozier in his left hand lies on a stone slab, his head resting on a yellow pillow. The scene is witnessed by a group of monks in cowls with their heads covered by their hoods. Their cowls are also black, except for one in brown. The background has gold leaves on a red ground.

Description:

The fifteenth-century Martyrology has a circular miniature at the feast of Bernard indicated by the letters in red above: 'XII kalendris septembris'. The bearded figure of Bernard in a black cowl and carrying a gold crozier in his left hand lies on a stone slab, his head resting on a yellow pillow. The scene is witnessed by a group of monks in cowls with their heads covered by their hoods. Their cowls are also black, except for one in brown. The background has gold leaves on a red ground.