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VII. Nous pervaded by the Godhead embracing the Macrocosm with the Microcosm (Lucca MS., fo. 9 r) 21

VIII. The Macrocosm, the Microcosm, and the Winds (Lucca MS., fo. 27 v) 28

IX. Celestial Influences on Men, Animals, and Plants (Lucca MS., fo. 371) 28

X. A Crucifix in the Uffizi Gallery; about the middle of the thirteenth century 30

XI. The Structure of the Mundane Sphere (Lucca MS., fo. 86 v) 32

XII. (a) Man’s Fall and the Disturbance of the Elemental Harmony (Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 4 r). (b) The New Heaven and the New Earth (Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 224 v) 33

XIII. The Last Judgement and Fate of the Elements (Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 224 r) 36

XIV. Diagram of the Relation of Human and Cosmic Phenomena: ninth century (Bibliothèque Nationale MS. lat. 5543, fo. 136 r) 37

XV. An Eleventh-century French Melothesia (Bibliothèque Nationale MS. lat. 7028, fo. 154 r) 40

XVI. A Melothesia of about 1400 (from Bibliothèque Nationale MS. lat. 11229, fo. 45 v) Between 40 and 41

XVII. Facsimile from the Symbolum Apostolicorum, a German Block Book of the first half of the Fifteenth Century (Heidelberg University Library) Between 40 and 41

XVIII. An Anatomical Diagram of about 1298 (Bodleian MS. Ashmole 399, fo. 18 r) 41

XIX. Birth. The Arrival and Trials of the Soul (Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 22 r) 44

XX. Death. The Departure and Fate of the Soul (Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 25 r) 45

XXI. The Fall of the Angels (Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 123 r) 46

XXII. The Days of Creation and the Fall of Man (Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 41 v) 48

XXIII. The Vision of the Trinity (Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 471) 50

XXIV. (a) Sedens Lucidus (Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 213 v). (b) Zelus Dei (Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 153 r) 52

XXV. The Heavenly City (Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 30 r) 54

XXVI. John Wilfred Jenkinson 57

XXVII. Mundinus (?) lecturing on Anatomy (from the 1493 edition of ‘Ketham’) 78

XXVIII. (a) Four Diagrams, to illustrate the Anatomy of Henri de Mondeville (Bibliothèque Nationale MS. fr. 2030, written in 1314). (b) A Dissection Scene, circa 1298 (Bodleian MS. Ashmole 399, fo. 34 r) 79

XXIX. A Post-Mortem Examination: late fourteenth century to illustrate Guy de Chauliac (Montpellier, Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Médecine MS. fr. 184, fo. 14 r) 80

XXX. (a) A Demonstration of Surface Markings: second half of fifteenth century (Vatican MS. Hispanice 4804, fo. 8 r). (b) A Demonstration of the Bones to illustrate Guy de Chauliac: first half of fifteenth century (Bristol Reference Library MS., fo. 25 r) 81

XXXI. Anatomical Sketches from the MS. of Guy de Vigevano of 1345 at Chantilly 84

XXXII. Anatomical Sketches from the MS. of Guy de Vigevano of 1345 at Chantilly 85

XXXIII. The Five-Figure Series: Veins, &c., Arteries, Nerves, Bones, Muscles (Bodleian MS. Ashmole 399, fos. 18 r-22 r): about 1298 92

XXXIV. Demonstrations of Anatomy: second half of fifteenth century (Dresden Galen MS.) 93

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