| This late fourteenth-century full-page miniature of the Lactation was inserted into an eleventh-century manuscript of a Gospel Book. A crowned and nimbed Virgin with long golden hair sits on a raised throne with a high decorated back, the naked Child on her lap. She looks down and holds her breast with her right hand in the direction of the kneeling figure of Bernard (described in the Bodleian Summary Catalogue No. 29127 as a 'saint kneeling'), nimbed, in a white cowl, and with a crozier with sudarium attached under his left arm and his hands clasped in prayer. The scroll emanating from his mouth reads 'monstra te esse matrem'. The scene is in a vaulted chamber with a green central column, rather like a chapter house. Bernard has 'tuft'.
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