| Half-figure of a nimbed Bernard with a book - his work - in his left hand to which he is pointing with his right hand against the sky as a background is contained within the gold initial on blue decorated ground S(atis et plus quam satis sustinui) - 'Long enough, perhaps too long have I waited' - the opening words of his Letter 1 to his nephew Robert in a fifteenth-century manuscript containing his letters, sermons, and other works. The border is decorated on three sides - top and bottom, and the left - with leaves, flowers, birds and putti. At the top within the border are three images, in the centre a half-figure of Bernard in a frontal position and on each side an angel. Three other circular images are in the lower border representing the arms and insignia of Duke Federico di Montefeltro, duke of Urbino.
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