| 1505/32. A scene recording Bernard's visit to Toulouse to counter the heresy of Henry of Lausanne depicting an incident recorded in the 'Exordium Magnum'. Someone remarked that Bernard was always unfortunate in his mounts, so a partisan of Henry commented on the difference between his master's and Bernard's horses, to which Bernard replied that you cannot judge people by the necks of their horses, but by their own, pointing to his neck and asking which was the fatter, Henry's or his. Bernard threw back his hood, baring his neck to the shoulders, and Conrad of Eberbach writes: 'It was long and graceful as a swan's, wondrously white and beautiful, yet sadly emaciated and almost fleshless'. This is what is depicted with the dialogue indicated by the scrolls. Bernard on the left pulls down his hood with his left hand while pointing to Henry's partisan on the right while Bernard's horse is in the middle. One of Bernard's monks stands behind him carrying his crozier.
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