MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA414.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	13C/2
Reference No	MS D, f 66v
Size
Provenance	Arouca, Cistercian Nuns' Abbey
Present Location	Arouca, Museu de Arte Sacra de Arouca
Bibliography

Illustration From	photo - Museum
Other illustrations

Country	Portugal

Description:
Antiphonary from the Cistercian nuns' abbey of Arouca dated first half og the thirteenth century. Mafalfa, daughter of King Sancho I of Portugal, married King Henrique of Castile, after whose death in 1219 she became a nun at Arouca. The standing figure of a nimbed Bernard, in a greyish cowl and with his hood partially over his head, is within the initial P(rima virtus viri sancti), the first Responsory of the first Nocturn from Vigils. Bernard is pointing in a teaching mode.

Description:

Antiphonary from the Cistercian nuns' abbey of Arouca dated first half og the thirteenth century. Mafalfa, daughter of King Sancho I of Portugal, married King Henrique of Castile, after whose death in 1219 she became a nun at Arouca. The standing figure of a nimbed Bernard, in a greyish cowl and with his hood partially over his head, is within the initial P(rima virtus viri sancti), the first Responsory of the first Nocturn from Vigils. Bernard is pointing in a teaching mode.