| One of three drawings in brown ink and water colour (see also DR14 & DR16) in the margin of a paper manuscript written in two stages - 1447-8 & 1451-3 - by the Florentine goldsmith Marco di Bartolommeo Rustici following his visit to the Holy Land and describing the vicissitudes of his pilgrimage.Two scenes in the margin are explained by the text below them. On the left a nimbed Bernard is seated and hands a letter to a monk who stands in front of him. The text below in red ink says: 'Santo bernardo mando unapostola assignore ramondo' (St Bernard gives a letter to Signor Raymond). On the right Raymond, identified by the red text below 'messer ramundo singniore', is seated in a high-backed chair on a dais and is handed the letter by the kneeling monk. The letter is also known as 'Dottrina del vivere', an apocryphal treatise concerning good government.
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