The Birth of Saint Jerome

Letter A

Book XXXVIII.44-5. Inquiry into embezzling public monies {Quarte Decadis Liber Octavus p. CCXXXVII}

Book VI.27. Volscians surrender themselves prisoners {Primae Decadis Liber Septimus p. LXV verso}

Triumph of Fame (fol. 60v)

Jerome's party goes from Rome to Antioch

Architectural frame, surrounding an emblematical piece of sculpture. This emblem is intended to express the sapient precept - Temper hastiness by keeping seated; check sloth by rising up (Velocitatem sedendo, Tarditatem tempera surgendo). (Fol. h vii recto)

Ch. 27. On the enclosure of the convent

Illustration IX

Clare of Montefalco

Illustration XVII

Book I.4. She-Wolf feeds Romulus and Remus; Faustulus carries them home {Primae Decadis Liber Primus p. XI}

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