MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA345.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	15C/2
Reference No	MS 21 (olim 127), f 232r (detail)
Size
Provenance	Flanders
Present Location	Tournai, Bibliotheque Communale
Bibliography	Smeyers 1995, 241

Illustration From	Smeyers 1995, ill 4
Other illustrations

Country	Belgium

Description:
Miniature in a Flemish manuscript of the Golden Legend in French from the second quarter of the fifteenth century. A nimbed standing Bernard with a crozier in his left hand and a closed book with clasp and a chain in his right hand at the end of which is the devil on whom he tramples. He wears a black cowl over a white tunic. He stands on grass with a decorated chequered background. The initial B(ernars) below introduces the etymology which comes before the biographical text proper.

Description:

Miniature in a Flemish manuscript of the Golden Legend in French from the second quarter of the fifteenth century. A nimbed standing Bernard with a crozier in his left hand and a closed book with clasp and a chain in his right hand at the end of which is the devil on whom he tramples. He wears a black cowl over a white tunic. He stands on grass with a decorated chequered background. The initial B(ernars) below introduces the etymology which comes before the biographical text proper.