MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA462.jpg

Category Manuscript
Origin Tuscany
Date 15C/4
Reference No MS B 52, f 4r
Size
Provenance
Present Location New York, Pierpont Morgan Library
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Illustration From Pierpont Morgan Library
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Country Italy
Description
In a fifteenth-century Book of Sermons in Italian a miniature within a gold frame has a nimbed, tonsured and bearded Bernard in a white cowl seated, reading from an open book on a lectern on a platform to a group of four monks, three with hoods and one bearded, all looking up to Bernard. Left margin decorated with scrolling foliate.