MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA405.jpg

Category Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop attributed to the workshop of Jean Bourdichon
Date 16C/1
Reference No MS 2104, f 149r (detail)
Size 5.3x4.8
Provenance
Present Location Tours, Bibliotheque Municipale
Bibliography Paris 1993, 353-4

Illustration From photo - Library
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Country France
Description:
Book of Hours (Use of Rome) from about 1510, the twelve large miniatures probably originating in Bourges or the Bourbonnais and possibly made for Pierre II de Bourbon, and with 105 small minatures, mostly by Parisian artists, one of these being of Bernard. The half-figure of a nimbed Bernard wearing white tunic and black scapular and a black cap sits at a desk writing. In front of him is a dark figure of a devil with batlike wings. The text above in red reads ' septem versus sancti bernardi'. The Verses begin next to the miniature and continue on f 149v