MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA364.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	13C/3
Reference No	MS CFM 36-1950, f 144r
Size
Provenance	Duchess of Breslau
Present Location	Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum
Bibliography	Wormald & Giles 1982, 2:414-29

Illustration From	photo - James Marrow
Other illustrations

Country	Germany

Description:
Part of the Litany of Saints in a manuscript containing Psalter, Calendar, & Litany probably written for the Duchess of Breslau between 1259 and 1266 by a German scribe and with illustrations by three hands in Italianate manner. Among the two rows of saints Bernard is the fourth from the bottom on the left. He is portrayed as a half-figure in a grey cowl with a book in his right hand and a crozier in his left. He is mentioned after St Dominic, St Francis, St Anthony, and St Benedict.

Description:

Part of the Litany of Saints in a manuscript containing Psalter, Calendar, & Litany probably written for the Duchess of Breslau between 1259 and 1266 by a German scribe and with illustrations by three hands in Italianate manner. Among the two rows of saints Bernard is the fourth from the bottom on the left. He is portrayed as a half-figure in a grey cowl with a book in his right hand and a crozier in his left. He is mentioned after St Dominic, St Francis, St Anthony, and St Benedict.