The lecture, Mediæval
universities.
Gafurius lecturing to
his pupils. Woodcut from Gafurius, Angelicum
opus musice, Milan, 1508.
Hieronymus, Epistolae,
Lyon,
1513.
Erasmus, Hieronymi
Stridonensis uita, Cologne, 1517.
Lactantius Firmianus,
Opera,
Paris,
1509.
The translator and the
Duke of Norfolk. Barclay's version of Sallust's
Jugurtha, London, Pynson, c. 1520.
A lecturer addressing
an audience, from a manuscript of Livre des cas
des malheureux nobles hommes et femmes, France, fifteenth century.
Bibliophile from Brandt's
Ship
of Fools.
Reception of a doctor.
Facsimile of a wood engraving taken from a
German edition of Cicero's De Officios, Paris, Bibliothèque
Nationale.
A school, after a design
of the sixteenth century, Paris, Bibliothèque
Nationale.
A playing card, from Jost
Amman, Kartenspielbuch, 1588.
Epistole of Pulci,
Florence, c. 1495.
Two figures from the
Hortus
Delicsarum.
Author, possibly Caxton,
presenting a book to Margaret, Duchess of
Burgundy, from Chatsworth copy of the Recuyell.
Cyprianus. Nürnberg,
1553.
Two figures from the
Hortus
Deliciarum.
The Crossing.
The eleven
bosses on the arch before the Crossing:
Scenes from the manuscript Speculum
humanae; salvationis
presented in 1715 by Governor Elihu
Yale. The subjects
from left to right:
Jonah and the whale.
Fishermen drawing in their nets.
The fiery furnace.
Daniel and the lions.
The adoration of the Magi.
The Nativity (central boss of the arch).
The creation of Eve.