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Diagrams on the soul in the afterlife from folios 83v-90v of the 12th-13th century manuscript latin 3236A in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, formerly in the Visconti library in Pavia.
[folio 83v]
(A table of virtues and powers of God
, arranged in three columns of 7, 8, 7)

[folio 84r]
("Goliardic" poem, 41 quatrains, beginning
"Invocabo Dominum et sic loquar ei/
Ego dixi, Domine, misere mei...")

[folio 84v]

(Wheel of Fortune:
Dat fortuna bonum, sed non est durable donum
("Fortune gives good, but it is not a lasting gift")
Ludus fortune variatur tempore lune
("the play of fortune changes with the time of the moon")

[folio 85]

(Seven Ages of Man, from infant to old man,
a peaceful Death (Mors) reposing at centre)
(my own copy after 3236A; simple design with
no other inscription but "mors" at centre)

[folios 85v-87r]
"Treatise on the Wanderings
of the Soul in the Other World"
(Details ascent by 10 and 10,
and descent through the spheres and planets)

[folio 89r]

(first design, 32 concentric circles)

[folio 90v]

(second design)