| In a Book of Hours known as the Hours of Simon de Varie illuminated by Jean Fouquet, who furnished a set of altogether six full-page frontispiece illustrations, and two other painters in 1455, part of which is now also in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague. It is related to Books of Hours made in the 1440's for two prominent members of the court of King Charles VII. The Hours concludes with a selection of specialized prayers in Latin and French by hand B. The first two are illustrated with half-page miniatures, the rest by historiated initials. Among these is the one of Bernard, depicted within the initial I(lluminatio oculos meos) at the beginning of the Verses of Bernard. He stands in a rocky landscape holding a black devil on a chain at his feet.
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