Yale Library in 1742.

[ Up the stairs near Yale Memorabilia. ]

     Doors from the Rev. Samuel Russel's house in Branford 
where the ministers met to found the College.

Linonia and Brothers.

     Carved panels on the inside of the door from the Societies' 
bookplates: on the left on entering, the Linonia bookplate, 
on the right, the Brothers in Unity.
     On each side of the fireplace, five carved wooden panels: 
on the left, three decorated linen fold alternating with two 
from bookplates of the Brothers in Unity Society; on the 
right, three decorated linen fold alternating with bookplates 
of the Linonia Society. A panel on the carved stone mantle:

LINONIA AND BROTHERS

and below the inscription:

HAEC STUDIA ADULESCENTIAM ALUNT, SENECTUTEM OBLECTANT

[Cicero.]

     The window decorations are readers or scholars from 
early woodcuts and illustrations:

St. Mark writing his Gospels, from the Bedford Book of Hours.
The disputation, Mediæval universities.

Paulus Attavanti, Breviarium totius juris canonici ... Memmingen, 
      1486.
Bookplate of the Alexander Kohut Memorial Collection.

Jacob Locher, the editor of Horace, at his desk. Woodcut from the first 
       illustrated edition of Horace, Strassburg, Grüninger, 1498.
Petrus de Montagnana, Ketham, Fasciculus medicine, Venice, 1522.