MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA481.jpg

Category Manuscript
Origin unknown
Date 15C/4
Reference No fol 129r
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Present Location private collection
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Small miniature in a late fifteenth-century Book of Hours with a standing Bernard in a black cowl with white tunic showing underneath and with a crozier in his right hand while trampling on a devil. The miniature is within the initial 'I(llumina oculos meos)', the opening of the Verses of Bernard, and is introduced with the text 'De sancto bernardo' in red.