MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - VA24.jpg

Category Seal
Origin: artist/workshop
Date 15C/1
Reference No RAperg 1424 15/8
Size 4.9x2.8
Provenance Nydala (Nova Vallis) Cistercian Abbey
Present Location Stockholm, State Archives
Bibliography Hallberg, Norberg & Odenius 1965, 102

Illustration From Hallberg, Norberg & Odenius 1965, ill 48 (photo - B A Lundberg)
Other illustrations

Country Sweden
Description:
Bernard? Seal impression dated 15/8 1424 of Abbot Johannes of Nydala has a standing figure of an abbot standing on a corbel with a crozier in his left hand and with his right hand raised in blessing. As the figure is nimbed it may represent Bernard. The matrix is from the early fifteenth century.