| From an early sixteenth-century Book of Hours, Use of Paris, in a miniature of 8 lines plus the height of the arch supported by two columns, Bernard sits writing at a desk. Unusually he is dressed in a white tunic and black scapular and, in the same way as he is depicted in two other French illuminated manuscripts (see MA011 and MA093), he wears a red cap, which may also be seen in a painting (see PA06). Behind the desk is a red horned devil who with a metal hook in his left hand steals Bernard's ink-well. The text alongside announces in French ('S'ensuivent les sept vers saint bernard') the beginning of the 7 Verses in Latin: 'Illumina oculos meos...'.
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