MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA399.jpg

Category Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop
Date 15C
Reference No MS Cod S. n. 3308, f 119r (detail)
Size
Provenance
Present Location Vienna, Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek
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Illustration From photo - Library
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Country Germany
Description:
In a fifteenth-century Prayer Book in German, introduced in red as 'A prayer to St Bernard', the three-quarter length figure of Bernard in a white cowl and holding a crozier in his left hand is depicted within the greyish-blue initial 'O' decorated with acanthus leaves on a red background.