Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

598. MS M.399, fol. 301v

ca. 1515

Da Costa hours
Illuminated by Simon Bening (1483/84–1561)

Ghent, Belgium
172 x 125 mm
MS M.399, fol. 301v

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), 1910

Bernard of Clairvaux: Vision of Christ on cross—Within a church, a nimbed and tonsured Bernard of Clairvaux wearing a habit kneels supporting Christ, who has a rayed nimbus and is wearing a crown of thorns and a short loincloth. Christ is descending from a tau cross with a plaque inscribed INRI.
The scene is framed by a border decorated with flowers, including viola, and inhabited by butterflies and a snail.