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An astronomical diagram with hand drawn details.

The title page of Ptolemy's [Klaudiou Ptolemaiou Alexandreōs ... Peri tēs geōgraphias biblia octō meta pasēs akribeias entupothenta (romanized form)] = Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini De geographia libri octo : summa cum uigilantia excusi featuring the printer's mark of Johann Froben, a pair of hands supporting a caduceus.

A depiction of seven notable scholars (real and mythological) from ancient Greece and Rome, including (clockwise from the bottom left): Xenokrates (ΞΕΝΟΚΡΑΤΗς), Pamphilos (ΠΑΜΦΙΛΟς), Machaon (ΜΑΧΑωΝ), Cheiron (ΧΕΙΡωΝ), Nigros or Niger (ΝΙΓΡΟς), [H]erakleides (ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΔΗς), and Mantias (ΜΑΝΤΙΑς).

A woodcut depiction of Saint Jerome seated at his desk with two books before him, one with Greek letters and another with Latin, representing his work translating the Bible. Jerome has turned from the books to remove a thorn from the paw of a lion, a popular story from the saint's life.

A facsimile of the recto of a Greek papyrus containing a treatise on the sphere based on the principles of Eudoxus, including diagrams and illustrations.