MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA348.jpg

Category Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop South Holland
Date 15C/1
Reference No MS 975, f 298v (detail)
Size
Provenance Cistercian Nuns' Abbey of Sterkrade, Nimwegen (?)
Present Location Darmstadt, Universitaets- und Landesbibliothek
Bibliography Eizenhoefer & Knaus 1968, 292-6

Illustration From photo - Library
Other illustrations

Country Netherlands
Description:
From a Cistercian Breviary dated c 1410 which may have belonged to the Cistercian Nuns at Sterkrede, Nijmegen, a bust of a nimbed Bernard in a brown cowl and carrying a crozier in his left hand is within the initial A(d). Another folio in the same manuscript has Bernard with Benedict and other saints - see MA369.