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David and the beasts.
    Noah.
    The Baptism in Jordan.
    The flight into Egypt.

     Vaulted ceiling, with plaster webs. Twenty bosses: eight are floral, and the remaining twelve have the names of the Sterling Trustees and the Building Committee:

                        Sterling Trustees                        Building Committee
                        James H. Perkins.                            James R. Angell.
                        George H. Church.                          Edwin M. Herr.
                        Percy Rockefeller.                           Clarence Blakeslee.
                        James A. Stillman.                           George P. Day.
                        Samuel McRoberts.                        Thomas W. Farnam.
                        George Cortelyou.
                        John Garver. 

     In the northern bay: eight floral bosses and twelve field bosses with figures from a carved ivory cover of the Psalter of Queen Melissenda, c. twelfth century, in the British Museum.
     The panels under the windows contain the names of the librarians and their dates:

                             Senior Tutor, before 1805.
                             James Lucy Kingsley, 1805-1824.
                             Josiah Willard Gibbs, 1824-1843.

     Inscriptions on the stone screen between the Crossing and the Exhibition corridor:

     AND OUT OF OLDE BOKES, IN GOOD FEITH
     COMETH AL THIS NEWE SCIENCE THAT MEN LERE

[Chaucer.]

IF I MUST BE A PRISONER I WOULD DESIRE TO HAVE NO OTHER PRISON THAN THAT LIBRARY

[James I. of the Bodleian.]

FOR WHATSOEVER THINGS WERE WRITTEN AFORETIME, WERE
WRITTEN FOR OUR LEARNING

[Romans XV, 4.]