| A late fifteenth-century Book of Hours in Latin finely illustrated by Flemish artists has 75 full-page or nearly full-page miniatures as well as 12 smaller ones, some resembling, although inferior to, the Grinani Breviary. One of the full-page miniatures has two lines of text and a half-figure of a nimbed Bernard in a frontal position against a red checked background looking downwards and wearing a white cowl and with a crozier with sudarium in his right hand and a book opened outwards in his left hand. The figure is within a thin gold frame with an arched Gothic top and with a gold and green Gothic architectural surround. The bottom of the previous folio has 'de sancto bernardo', and the text below the image of Bernard which is the Antiphon for the Magnificat for the feast of a Confessor and is taken from Matthew 7.24. It reads: 'Anti.{in red} Simulabo cum viro sapienti qui edificavit domumi [and continuing on f 228r] suam supra firman petram eo. Ora pro nobis beate pater bernarde.' (I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock. Pray for us blessed father Bernard). The following folio (229v) has a full-page miniature featuring a large number of saints seen from behind and with their hands uplifted to the three figures of the Trinity with Mary kneeling before them. One of the saints, tonsured and in a white cowl, may well represent Bernard. With the image is a prayer to All Saints.
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