Ch. 5. To avoid simony in receiving

Illustration XXI

Canto VI. Ante-Purgatory / The Second Ledge; The Late Repentant; Class 3 - Those Who Died by Violence; Sordello

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

Illustration preceeding Third Decades

Book XXXVII.1-3. Aetolians request peace and are denied {Quarte Decadis Liber Septimus p. CCXXIII}

Reliefs from the fourth car (Festival of Bacchus). Jupiter commits the infant Bacchus to Mercury. In the same compartment, Mercury is carring the child to the nymphs of Mount Nyssa in Thrace, who bring him up in a cave. (Fol. l ii recto)

Book II.12. Caius Mucius sneaks into Etrurian camp and slays the secretary {Primae Decadis Liber Secundus p. XIII}

Book XXIV.4. Hieronymus, King of Syracuse, put to death by his subjects {Tertiae Decadis Liber Quartus p. CXXV}

Illustration XLVII

Initial B

Ch. 41. On the authority of the bishop and the observance of the rules of the order

Letter 10 to Paul, an old man of Concordia and owner of a good theological library, regarding Jerome borrowing some commentaries. In return Jerome sends him his life of Paul the hermit.