| In an English manuscript dated the third quarter of the thirteenth century of Pope Gregory the Great, Peter of Blois, and Bernard's 'De consideratione' whose origin is unknown but which was given to the Franciscans in York, perhaps by Simon Newton. Bernard's 'De consideratione' is illustrated with five miniatures of Bernard and Eugenius III and this one of Bernard writing. Within the initial S(icut) a bearded Bernard in a white cowl is seated at a desk writing on a long length of parchment with a pen in his right hand and a knife in his left. In front of his face is the dove of the Holy Spirit inspiring him. See also MA283-7. The text is headed 'Bernardus super cantica', but is in fact Origins's First Homily on the Song of Songs: 'Quomodo [Sicut in the text] didicimus per Moysen esse quaedam non solum sancta, sed et 'sancta sanctorum', et alia non tantum sabbata, sed et 'sabbata sabbatorum', sic nunc quoque docemur scribente Solomone esse quaedam non solum cantica, sed et 'cantica canticorum'' ('As we have learned from Moses that some places are not merely holy, but holy of holies, and that certain days are not sabbaths simply, but are sabbaths of sabbaths; so now we are taught further by the pen of Solomon that there are songs which are not merely songs, but SONGS OF SONGS')
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