| Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin with prayers at the end in Italian (Milanese dialect), signed and dated by 'Frater Paulus de mediolana ordis sci Btholomei de hermineis, 1446', which used to have 17 full-page miniatures of which the only one remaining is that of a nimbed Bernard in a brown cowl with a gold crozier under his left arm and a rosa book in his right. He tramples on a large black devil with a tail, claws, and a red tongue. Bernard stands on green grass with rocks and trees in the background. Within a gold frame with a rounded top and with a wide border on the left and below and a narrow border on the right with delicate floral scrolls. Although the script is Italian, the artist is thought to have been either from the Netherlands or England as suggested by some of the names in the Calendar. The opposite folio has the beginning of the Seven Verses (f 224r-225r) introduced by the rubric in red: 'Incipiunt versis psalterii quibus beatus bernardus cottidie dicebat'. The verses are interspersed with the 'O' Antiphons which are not arranged in the usual order.
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