MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA362.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	14C
Reference No	MS 687, f 2r (detail)
Size	8x5.5
Provenance
Present Location	Padua, University Library
Bibliography	SBOp 1:3; Leclercq 1953, 44

Illustration From	photo - Library
Other illustrations	Leclercq 1957, frontispiece

Country	Italy

Description:
Within the initial V(obis fratres) - the opening of Sermon 1 On the Song of Songs - a half-figure of a bearded Bernard with the hood of his white cowl partially over his head is preaching to a group of five monks, one of them youthful-looking and one of the bearded, looking up at him attentively. He has his right hand raised with the index finger pointing in a teaching mode, and with his left hand he holds a red book with five studs.

Description:

Within the initial V(obis fratres) - the opening of Sermon 1 On the Song of Songs - a half-figure of a bearded Bernard with the hood of his white cowl partially over his head is preaching to a group of five monks, one of them youthful-looking and one of the bearded, looking up at him attentively. He has his right hand raised with the index finger pointing in a teaching mode, and with his left hand he holds a red book with five studs.