Chapter II: Appendix: B. “Presbyter Joannes” (Prester John) 241

INDEX 243

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

1. THE “AMBASSADORS,” FROM THE PICTURE BY HOLBEIN IN THE
NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON (_full-page_) _Frontispiece_

2. REDUCED FACSIMILE OF DOCUMENT PURCHASED FROM M. SAFFROY
(_full-page_) 12

3. REDUCED FACSIMILE OF DOCUMENT PRESERVED AMONGST THE
GODEFROY PAPERS, BIBL. DE L’INSTITUT, PARIS (_full-page_) 18

4. THE CHÂTEAU OF POLISY, FROM AN ORIGINAL DRAWING OF THE
EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, PUBLISHED BY M. LUCIEN
COUTANT IN THE ALMANACH DE BAR-SUR-SEINE (_full-page_) 35

5. PORTRAIT OF FRANÇOIS II. DE DINTEVILLE, BISHOP OF AUXERRE,
FROM THE MARTYRDOM OF STE. EUGÉNIE, BY FELIX CHRÉTIEN,
IN THE CHURCH AT VARZY (_full-page_) 56

6. UNNAMED DRAWING BY HOLBEIN IN THE WINDSOR COLLECTION,
SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT JEAN DE DINTEVILLE (_full-page_) 110

7. ARMS OF JEAN DE DINTEVILLE, AS STILL SEEN AT POLISY (_in
the text_) 128

8. ARMS OF THE BISHOP OF AUXERRE, FROM THE TESSELATED PAVEMENT
AT POLISY (_in the text_) 130

9. DORMER WINDOW OF THE MAISON DE L’AÛMONIER AT POLISY, SHOWING
THE EMBLEM OF FORTUNE (_in the text_) 131

10. MARK OF THE PRINTER GRYPHE OF LYONS, SHOWING THE EMBLEM OF
FORTUNE (_in the text_) 132

11. THE CATHEDRAL OF LAVAUR AT THE PRESENT DAY (_full-page_) 143

12. JEAN DE SELVE, PREMIER PRÉSIDENT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF PARIS,
FROM BULLART, “ACADÉMIE DES SCIENCES ET DES ARTS”
(_full-page_) 154

13. GEORGE DE SELVE, BISHOP OF LAVAUR, FROM A POSTHUMOUS PAINTING
AT THE CHÂTEAU OF VILLIERS, SEINE-ET-OISE (_full-page_) 170

14. _a._ THE “ARMS OF DEATH,” FROM HOLBEIN’S DANCE OF DEATH.

_b._ THE DEATH’S-HEAD BROOCH IN DINTEVILLE’S CAP (_full-page_) 197

15. _a._ DINTEVILLE’S DAGGER-SHEATH, FROM THE PICTURE OF THE
“AMBASSADORS.”

_b._ DESIGN FOR A DAGGER-SHEATH AFTER HOLBEIN, AT THE MUSEUM
OF BASLE (_full-page_) 206

16. CELESTIAL GLOBE, FROM THE PICTURE OF THE “AMBASSADORS,”
reduced scale (_full-page_) 210

17. TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, FROM THE PICTURE OF THE “AMBASSADORS,”
reduced scale (_full-page_) 214

18. GORES OF THE NUREMBERG GLOBE COPIED BY HOLBEIN, reduced
scale (_full-page_) _ibid._

19. HYMN-BOOK, FROM THE PICTURE OF THE “AMBASSADORS” (_full-page_) 218

20. _a._ BOOK OF ARITHMETIC, FROM THE PICTURE OF THE “AMBASSADORS.”

_b._ PAGE OF APIAN’S “MERCHANT’S ARITHMETIC,” COPIED BY
HOLBEIN (_full-page_) 224

21. _a._ DESIGN OF THE MOSAIC PAVEMENT IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY,
WITH DETAILS OF PATTERNS (_in the text_) 226

_b._ DESIGN OF THE MOSAIC PAVEMENT IN HOLBEIN’S PICTURE,
WITH DETAILS OF PATTERNS (_in the text_) _ibid._

HOLBEIN’S “AMBASSADORS”