Taken from illuminations in the Cottonian Manuscript Nero C. IV. executed, probably, before the middle of the twelfth century. The subject of the whole illuminated page, of which this forms the lower compartment is the Saviour changing the water into wine at the marriage at Cana. The upper compartment represents the wedding dinner, with Christ and the other guests at table. Christ is blessing the water, which he holds in his hand in a large drinking horn, the only vessel for liquids which appears on the table. In the lower compartment, represented in our cut, the servants appear taking the water vessels from the cupboard, drawing the water from the well, and carrying it upstairs into the chamber where the guests are assembled at dinner. The staircase has a very primitive form - it appears to be made of a solid piece of timber, with grooves cut in the wood in which to place the feet in ascending or descending. A plaited rope attached to the side serves the purpose of a rail.