MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - VA13.jpg

Category Seal
Origin: artist/workshop
Date 13C
Reference No
Size
Provenance Combe Cistercian Abbey
Present Location London, British Museum
Bibliography Pedrick 1902, 54-5

Illustration From Pedrick 1902, pl 20 (40)
Other illustrations

Country England
Description:
Bernard? Seal belongong to the English abbey of Combe. Within two trefoiled canopies supported by slender pillars, on left full-length representation of the crowned Virgin and Child, on the right, also at full length, an abbot with staff and book and in eucharistic vestments, possibly Bernard. Legend: SIGILL'. COMVNE. MONACHOR. DE. CVBA.