| In an early sixteenth-century Book of Hours, Use of Rome, with Bruges Calendar, a half-figure of Bernard is featured in a frontal position wearing a white cowl. Before him is an open book from which he is reading, and he holds a crozier in his left hand. There is a window on each side behind him through which a landscape appears. On the left is a church spire above which a tiny devil is floating. Beside the miniature the decorated initial I(llumina oculos) above which in red letters announces the beginning of the Eight Verses: 'Octo versiculi sci bernardi'. The border on all four sides has naturalistic flowers and birds on a gold ground.
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