Keywords: Illuminated Manuscripts (Middleton) figure36.jpg Figure from <i>Illuminated Manuscripts in Classical and Mediaeval Times their Art and their Technique</i> Fig 36 Paintings on the vault of the church of St Michael at Hildesheim In the centre is the Fall of Man in a medallion frame with a conventionally treated tree on each side; all round are smaller paintings including the great Rivers of Paradise and the Jordan two Evangelists and their Symbols with a series of medallion busts of Old Testament Saints linked together by scroll-work of foliage exactly like that in illuminations of contemporary date https //archive org/details/illuminatedmanu00midd 1892 J Henry Middleton PD-old-100 Illuminated Manuscripts Middleton Painted ceiling of St Michael's Church Hildesheim The Fall Symbols of Evangelists |