MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA370.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	circle of Simon Marmion
Date	15C/4
Reference No	f 24v
Size
Provenance	Valenciennes or Cambrai
Present Location	Ramsen, Switzerland - Heribert Tenschert
Bibliography	Koenig 1998, 393-4

Illustration From	photo - James Marrow
Other illustrations

Country	France

Description:
Book of Hours in Latin and French from Valenciennes or Cambrai dated c 1480. One of 36 miniatures shows a nimbed Bernard in white tunic and black scapular standing in a chamber at the opening of the text 'Illumina oculos meos' of the 8 Verses of Bernard. He has an open book in his right hand below which the miniature has been defaced where there undoubtedly had been a devil at his feet as was usual in illustrations of his Verses.

Description:

Book of Hours in Latin and French from Valenciennes or Cambrai dated c 1480. One of 36 miniatures shows a nimbed Bernard in white tunic and black scapular standing in a chamber at the opening of the text 'Illumina oculos meos' of the 8 Verses of Bernard. He has an open book in his right hand below which the miniature has been defaced where there undoubtedly had been a devil at his feet as was usual in illustrations of his Verses.