| One of four images of Bernard on three folios in the Hours of Charles V in Latin and French made in Paris 1510-20 (see also MA322 & MA323). Among the legends of the Virgin and the Cross is this miniature of Bernard in the border. The standing figure of a nimbed Bernard in a white habit has an open book in his right hand and a crozier in his left. The scene is set in a landscape with buildings in the background. Below a rectangular box has a gold banderole with the red inscription 'Bernardus avocatum [sic] habemus apud patrem' (We have Bernard as advocate with the Father) on a blue background decorated with gold fleurs de lys. The border is decorated with stylized leaves and flowers and a bird.
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