Twenty-four expanded books are arranged grid-fashion in four columns of six.

This is a cataloque of some of the books that Gonzalo may have surreptitiously placed in the leaky boat that took Prospero and his daughter Miranta into exile. Amongst them there was certainly a Herbal, a Book of Music and Architecture, o Book of Combustion, Primers in Geometry and Erotica, several Encyclopedias, at least one Diary and certainly the Autobiography of the Minotaur.