Book III.8. Hernicians announce that the enemy has crossed into their frontiers {Libro Deca Prima Cap. XVI}

Initial M from Lactantius, Divinarum Institutionum Adversus Genteis, de falsa religione, etc. Used by Bernardino and Matteo Veneti in Venice and Rome, 1492-1510

Illustration from Titus 4

Letter 8 to Niceas, subdeacon of Antioch, regarding why Niceas has not responded to Jerome's letters

Initial P

Tripod with three naked boys standing upon a pedestal supported by lions' feet (fol. g recto)

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)

The torch of Polia extinguished in the altar, which resembles a fountain with its cover kept open (fol. o i recto)

Book XXIII.31. Prodigies: A cow at Sinuessa gives forth a foal, statues in the Temple of Juno Sospita at Livinium sweat blood, a shower of stones fell around the same temple {Tertiae Decadis Liber Tertius p. CXVIII}

One of the sides of the pedestal of the bronze horse, with a relief of two-faced youths and nymphs dancing (fol. b v verso)

Canto I. The Ascent to Heaven; The Order of the Universe

Book III.48. Virginius kills his daughter, Virginia, to preserve her honor {Primae Decadis Liber Tertius p. XXVIII verso}

Ch. 3. On the election of the sisters and the administrarion of monastery property