A mosaic picture on the ceiling of the crypt, representing the gulf of Hell (fol. q ii recto)

Illustration LIV

Hell: The Grafters in a River of Boiling Pitch (Canto XXII)

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

Trophy of arms, with a lion's skin and bull's head

Canto XXI. Ascent to the Seventh Sphere: Saturn – The Contemplative; The Celestial Ladder; Peter Damiano

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

Illustration from Robert Valturi, De re Milatari. Verona, Johannes de Verona, 1472

Letter P

Saint Augustine, Cain and Abel

Book XXX.25. Ambassadors to Carthage receieve two triremes for their return {Tertiae Decadis Liber Decimus p. CLXXIX}

Letter Q

Initial H