Illustration for I Peter 1

Canto XVIII. Ascent to the Sixth Sphere: Jupiter / The Just and Temperate Rulers; The Vision of the Flashing Lights

Triumphal car, ornamented with reliefs. The relief on the right shows the princess Europa and her maidens crowning the herd with flowers. (fol. k iiii recto)

Ch. 18. On the order of service between the deacon and nuns

Canto IV. The First Sphere: The Moon / The Inconstant

Illustration III

Poliphilus and Polia kneeling before the priestess of Venus (D ii)

A "mighty huge" elephant of black stone, with gold and silver dots. Upon the large back of this prodigious animal is placed an obelisk of verde-antique (fol. b vii verso)

Canto IX. Circle 6 / The Heretics (The Furies); The Gates Opened by the Angel from Heaven

Book XXIII.15. City of Nuceria sacked and burned {Tertiae Decadis Liber Tertius p. CXV}

Book VI.20. Marcus Manlius is thrown from the Tarpean Rock {Primae Decadis Liber Sextus p. LV}

Jerome's party goes from Rome to Antioch

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