| One of three drawings in brown ink and water colour (see also DR14 & DR15) 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 the pilgrimage. In this scene Bernard is kneeling at a desk at which he is writing in an open book. He looks up to the smaller Virgin who appears in a mandorla in a cloud in the sky. The scene takes place in a rocky landscape with trees and is witnessed by a monk in the distance. The text below reads: 'Santo bernardo uno belo sermone'.
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