| A Milanese Evangeliarium. The only historiated initial I(n illo tempore dicebat) at the beginning of the Gospel of St Matthew has Bernard standing in a white cowl, holding an open book with both hands and with a gold crozier leaning on his right shoulder. The grounding is lilac with a gold pattern, the inittial red, blue and green. The last lection on the previous folio has 'In solemnitate beatissimi patris nostri Bernardi Abbatis', indictating that this was to be read on Bernard's feast. The inscription 'sancte Marie carevallis de Mediolano' tells us that it belonged to the Cistercians at Chiaravalle Milanese.
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