MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA429.jpg

Category Manuscript
Origin probably nun at Medingen
Date 15C/4
Reference No Formerly Magdeburg, Kunsthistorisches Museum, MS Bi 105
Size
Provenance Medingen Cistercian nuns' abbey
Present Location Cambridge, Mass., Houghton Library, Harvard University
Bibliography

Illustration From Henrike Laehnemann
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Country Germany
Description
Late fifteenth-century Prayerbook in Latin. The lower margin has a figure playing a harp - King David. The scroll reads: 'Astitit regina a dextris tuis in vestitu deaurato' (Ps 44:10). The right hand margin has a standing figure of a nimbed Bernard in a white cowl carrying a book and a crozier and identified by the inscription 'b'nar'.