Part I :The Holy and the Faithful. 1. Jonah cast up, c. 280-290, marble -- 2. Altar front, c. 540-600, marble -- 3. Pilgrim's flask with Saint Menas, sixth-seventh century, terracotta -- 4 Calyx (Chalice), 900s-1000s, blood jasper (heliotrope) with gilt-copper mounts -- 5. Christ's mission to the Apostles, c. 970-980, ivory -- 6. Feline incense burner, 1100s, copper alloy, cast and chased -- 7. Leaf from a Qur'an, 1100s, opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper -- 8. Arm reliquary of the Apostles, c.1190, gilt-silver, champlevé enamel, oak -- 9. Virgin and Child, late thirteenth century, wood (oak) with polychromy and gilding -- 10. Christ and Saint John the Evangelist, early fourteenth century, polychromy and gilded oak -- 11. The Coronation of the Virgin with the Trinity, c. 1400, oil on panel -- 12. Christ carrying the cross 1400s, painted and gilded alabaster -- 13 Leaf from an antiphonary, initial H with the nativity, c. 1480, ink, tempera, and gold on vellum -- Part II: The sinful and the spectral. 14. Adam and Eve, late 400s to early 500s, marble and stone tesserae -- 15. Curtain panel with scenes of merrymaking, sixth century, undyed linen and dyed wool -- 16. Plaque from a portable altar showing the Crucifixion, 1050-1100, walrus ivory -- 17. Dragon's head, 1100-1150, walrus ivory -- 18. Bowl with engraved figures of vices, 1150-200, bronze -- 19. Engaged capital with a lion and a basilisk 1175-1200, marble -- 20. Leaf from a cocharelli treatise on the vices, acedia and her court, c. 1330, ink, tempera, and gold on vellum -- 21. Miniature from a mariegola: the flagellation, 1359-1360, tempera and gold on parchment -- 22. The Madonna of Humility with the Temptation of Eve, c. 1400, tempera and gold on wood panel -- 23. Grotesques from the Hours of Charles the Noble, c. 1404, ink, tempera, and gold on vellum -- 24. The Virgin Mary overcoming a devil, c. 1473, hand-colored woodcut -- 25. Demon in chains, c. 1453, opaque watercolor and gold on paper -- Part III: Daily life and its fictions. 26. S-shaped fibula, sixth century, silver with garnets -- 27. Button, 500s, rock crystal, garnet, granulated gold -- Solidus with busts of Constans II and Constantine IV (obverse), 659-661, gold -- 29. Bifolium excised from a Carolingian gradual, c. 830-860, gold and silver ink on purple parchment -- 30. Jug, Buyid period, reign of Samsam al-Dawla, 985-998, gold with repoussé and chased and engraved decoration -- 31. Lion aquamanile, 1200-1250, copper alloy -- 32. Luster wall tile with a couple, 1266, fritware with luster-painted design -- 33. Leaf excised from Henry of Segusio's Summa Aurea: table of consanguinity, c. 1280, ink, tempera, and gold on parchment -- 34. Albarello with two hares, fourteenth century, tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) -- 35. Mirror case with a couple playing chess, 1325-1350, ivory -- 36. Table fountain, c 1320-1340, gilt-silver and translucent enamels -- 37. Barbute, 1350-1420, iron -- 38. Time, from Chateau de Chaumont set, 1512-1515, silk and wool -- Part IV: Death and its aftermath. 39. Columbarium tomb plaque with the monogram of Christ, 500-800, terracotta -- 40. Single-edged knife (scramasax), 600s, iron, copper, and gold foil -- 41. Inscribed tombstone of Shaikh al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn al-Hasan, 1110/AH 504, limestone -- 42. Condemnation and martyrdom of Saint Lawrence, c. 1180, gilded copper, champlevé enamel -- 43. Leaf from a psalter, the crucifixion, c. 1300-1330, ink, tempera, and gold on vellum -- 44. Diptych with scenes from the life of Christ, c 1350-1375, ivory -- 45. Death of a Virgin, c. 1400, tempera and oil with gold on panel -- 46. Mourner from the Tomb of Philip the Bold, 1404-1410, alabaster -- 47. The Last Judgment: Leaf from a book of hours, 1430s, ink, tempera, and gold on vellum -- 48. Initial T from a choral book with Isaac and Esau, c. 1460-1470, ink, tempera, and gold on parchment -- 49. A bridal couple, c. 1470, oil on panel -- 50. Dance of death: the Pope, cut c. 1526-1527, woodcut.