Procession at the inauguration of the University of Leiden, 1575

Procession at the inauguration of the University of Leiden, 8 February 1575. Procession depicted in three rows stacked vertically. Bottom right: soldiers, musicians, standard-bearers, and celebratory gunfire. On the left, dignitaries and professors walk through a triumphal arch bearing the coat of arms of Leiden. Bottom left: the ship with Neptune, Apollo, and the nine Muses. Elements in the image are indicated with numbers and letters. At the bottom, the legend in Dutch on the left, the legend in Latin on the right.