| In a Book of Hours from c 1450 Bernard is depicted in a full-page miniature in pontifical vestments consisting of blue chasuble, rosa dalmatic, and white alb, wearing a mitre and with a crozier in his left hand. That the artist was not aware of the way Bernard was normally portrayed is compounded by the fact that he is, almost uniquely, shown with long hair and not with tonsure. In his right hand he has a leash at the end of which he holds a demon on which he is also standing. Bernard stands on a tiled floor and agaist a red and gold brocade hanging, all within a narrow gold frame surrounded by a border of leaves, flowers, and animals. The miniature introduces the 7 Verses of Bernard in Latin headed by the title in Dutch: 'De VII verse van sente bernaerde' (f 55-6).
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