MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA338.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	15C/4
Reference No	MS CFM 22, f 40r (p. 79) (detail)
Size	10.1x8.7
Provenance
Present Location	Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum
Bibliography	James 1895, 43-51

Illustration From	James Marrow
Other illustrations

Country	France

Description:
One of five images of Bernard in a French version of the Golden Legend from c 1500 made for Jane of Burgundy, daughter of Robert, 2nd duke of Burgundy. A standing Bernard, nimbed and with a gold crozier in his left hand, looks down at a group of kneeling men with their hands clasped and points to the figire of Christ on the Cross on the right. There is another miniature with Bernard on the same folio (MA339) - see also MA336-7 and 340.

Description:

One of five images of Bernard in a French version of the Golden Legend from c 1500 made for Jane of Burgundy, daughter of Robert, 2nd duke of Burgundy. A standing Bernard, nimbed and with a gold crozier in his left hand, looks down at a group of kneeling men with their hands clasped and points to the figire of Christ on the Cross on the right. There is another miniature with Bernard on the same folio (MA339) - see also MA336-7 and 340.