| In a Book of Hours (Use of Rome) probably made in Spain c 1460-70 for the Infante Don Alfonso de Castile, younger brother of Isabella the Catholic Bernard is depicted in grisaille with a gold halo within a frame with golden text. He is sitting at a desk on which an open book is lying. He holds this with his left hand while a devil with bat-like wings and a human head, who also has a human head on his chest, tries to grab the book with his right hand. The arms of Castile and Leon appear elsewhere in the manuscript. Alfonso died in 1468, and the work may have been interrupted and later finished for Isabella. There is a border with leaves and flowers, a peacock, a bird, a fox, and two human figures, one playing a harp.
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