Like the _Janua_, the subjects treated in the _Orbis pictus_ cover a wide range of topics. Their character may be indicated by the following citations of chapter headings: God, the world, the heavens, fire, the air, the water, the clouds, the earth, the fruits of the earth, metals, stones, trees, fruits of trees, flowers, potherbs, corn, shrubs, birds, tame fowls, singing birds, birds that haunt the fields and woods, ravenous birds, waterfowls, ravenous vermin, animals about the house, herd-cattle, laboring beasts, wild cattle, wild beasts, serpents and creeping things, crawling vermin, creatures that live as well by water as by land, river-fish and pond-fish, sea-fish and shell-fish, man, the seven ages of man, the outward parts of man, the head and the hand, the flesh and bowels, the charnels and bones, the outward and inward senses, the soul of man, deformed and monstrous people, dressing of gardens, husbandry, grazing, grinding, bread-making, fishing, fowling, hunting, butchery, cookery, the vintage, brewing, a feast, and so on to the one hundred and fifty-first chapter, in which the first illustration is reproduced with this benediction by the master: “Thus thou hast seen in short all things that can be shewed, and hast learned the chief words of the Latin and mother-tongue. Go on now and read other good books diligently, and thou shalt become learned, wise and godly. Remember these things: Fear God and call upon him that he may bestow upon thee the spirit of wisdom. Farewell.” Under the pictures illustrating each chapter follows the descriptions in the vernacular and the Latin. The following on the school may be taken as characteristic of the book:— A school (1) Schola (1) is a shop in which young wits est officina in quâ novelli animi are fashioned to virtue, and it formantur ad virtutem is distinguished into classes. & distinguitur in classes. The master (2) Præceptor (2) sits in a chair (3) sedet in cathedra (3) the scholars (4) discipuli (4) in forms (5) in subsellüs (5) he teaches, they learn. ille docet, hi discunt. Some things are writ down Quædam præ scribuntur illis before them with chalk on a cretâ in tabella. (6) table. (6) Some sit Quidam sedent at a table and write (7) ad mensam & scribunt (7), he mendeth their faults (8). ipse corrigit mendas (8). Some stand and rehearse Quidam stant & recitant things committed to memory mandata memoriæ (9). (9).