MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA355.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	Lyon
Date	15C/3
Reference No	MS 688, f 9r
Size
Provenance
Present Location	Le Mans, Musee de Tesse
Bibliography	Schmitt 1990, 158

Illustration From	photo - Museum
Other illustrations

Country	France

Description:
Historiated miniature in a French Book of Hours in Latin from the second half of the fifteenth century within the opening initial I(llumina oculos meos) of the Eight Verses of Bernard interspersed with the O Antiphons. A nimbed Bernard in a white tunic and black scapular holds a large grey demon on a chain in his left hand while his right hand is raised in a gesture of exorcism. The background is a rocky landscape.

Description:

Historiated miniature in a French Book of Hours in Latin from the second half of the fifteenth century within the opening initial I(llumina oculos meos) of the Eight Verses of Bernard interspersed with the O Antiphons. A nimbed Bernard in a white tunic and black scapular holds a large grey demon on a chain in his left hand while his right hand is raised in a gesture of exorcism. The background is a rocky landscape.