Illustration XXVII

Canto V. Ascent to the Second Sphere

Illustration XXIX

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Canto XXIX. The Ninth Sphere: The Primum Mobile; Beatrice Recounts Time from Creation to the Revolt of the Angels

Canto XXI. The Fifth Cornice / The Avaricious; the Poet Statius

Book XXIX.14. Publius Cornelius receives the goddess, the Idaean Mother, from all the matrons at Ostia and delivers her to Rome {Tertiae Decadis Liber Nonus p. CLXX verso}

Border illustration to the Life of Saint Jerome (rpt. m6144)

Book XXXIX.25. Complaint that Philip laid ambush to Thessalonian ambassadors {Quarte Decadis Liber Nonus p. CCXLIIII}

Book XXVIII.21. Scipio exhibits a show of gladiators in New Carthage {Tertiae Decadis Liber Octavus p. CLXII verso}

Canto XIX. The Fourth Cornice / The Slothful; Dante's Dream of the Siren; Ascent to the Fifth Cornice - The Avaricious; Pope Adrian V

Ornament with nude female half-figure, with wings terminating in foliage (fol. n iiii recto)

Illustration I