| Half-figure of a nimbed Bernard in a white cowl and with a gold book in his right hand and a gold crozier in his left within the rosa initial A(nno) on a blue ground in the summer part of a Breviary (Use of Paris) from the first half of the fifteenth century. The arms of the Dauphin on f 430 indicates that it was made for one of the three sons of King Charles VI, either Louis de France, duke of Guyenne (1397-1415), Jean de France (1398-1416), or future Charles VII who was Dauphin 1416-22 before becoming king. The Bedford and Boucicant Masters were involved in the decoration.
|
