Position |
Jamb Figure |
Upper Quatrefoil
|
Lower Quatrefoil
|
54 |
Hosea |
Hosea marries an adulteress, whom he converts to chastity (H 3:1-5) |
At God’s command, Hosea marries a prostitute (Hos. 1:2-3) |
52 |
Joel |
Joel sees that the sun and moon have lost their light and calls for conversion & repentance (Joel 2:10ff) |
Joel sees the vine dried up and the fig tree withered (Joel 1:7ff) |
50b |
Amos |
Amos (lower panel) looks up at God (upper panel) illustrating his prophecy “the Lord shall roar out of Sion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem” (Amos 1:2) |
50a |
Amos feeds a lamb with wild figs (Amos 7:14-15) |
Amos sees the Lord standing on a wall holding a plumb-line (Amos 7:7) |
48 |
Presentation (Simeon) |
Fall of the idols |
The Holy Family’s return from Egypt to Nazareth after hearing of Herod’s death |
46 |
Presentation (Mary) |
The Holy Family’s flight into Egypt |
Christ among the Doctors |
44 |
Visitation (Elizabeth) |
Zachariah and the people |
The naming of John the Baptist |
42 |
Visitation (Mary) |
Annunciation to Zachariah |
Birth of John the Baptist |
40 |
Annunciation (Mary) |
Gideon and the dew-drench fleece (prefiguration of the virgin birth) |
The flowering of Aaron’s rod (prefiguration of the virgin birth) |
38 |
Annunciation (Gabriel) |
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of the ‘stone cut without human hands’ (prefiguration of the virgin birth) |
Moses’ vision of the Burning Bush (prefiguration of the virgin birth) |
36 (trum) |
Virgin & Child |
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34 |
Magus #1 |
Balaam telling his prophecy to the Moabites (“...a star shall come forth out of Jacob, and a sceptre shall rise out of Israel” - Numbers 24:17) |
An angel appears to the Magi in a dream, warning them not to return to Herod |
32 |
Magus #2 |
Isaiah’s prophecy of the Adoration (Isaiah 40:1-6) |
The magi escaping in their ships |
30 |
Magus #3 |
Herod and his advisors, one of whom points to the adjacent prophet quatrefoils |
Burning of the ships at Tarsus |
28 |
Herod |
Massacre of the Innocents |
Herod orders the burning of the Magi’s ships |
26 |
Solomon |
Throne of Solomon |
The Ark of the Covenant |
24 |
Queen of Sheba |
Feast of Solomon |
Solomon instructing the Queen of Sheba |
22b |
Obadiah |
Ob. feeds the prophets he has hidden in a cave to save them from Jezebel (Kings 18:4) |
Ob. kneeling in humility before Elijah (Kings 18:7) |
22a |
Obadiah returns to King Ahab to tell him about Elijah (Kings 18:8-15) |
Ob. kneeling before the King, with Elijah standing alongside (Kings 18:16) |
20 |
Jonah |
Jonah spat out of the whale on the shores of Nineveh (Jon. 2:11) |
Jonah sitting under a gourd awaiting the destruction of Nineveh (Jon. 4:6-11) |
18b |
Micah |
Micah sees the Lord in the Tower of Sion “the heavenly Jerusalem” (Micah 4:8) |
“But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree and none shall make them afraid” (Micah 4:8) |
18a |
The prophecy “they shall beat their swords into ploughshares...” |
“...and their spears into pruning hooks” (Micah 4:3) |
16 |
Jeremiah |
Jeremiah buries a girdle near the Euphrates (Jer. 13:3-11) |
A false prophet removes the yoke from Jeremiah’s neck (Jer. 28:10-17) |
14 |
Isaiah |
Isaiah’s vision of the two seraphim flanking the Lord (Is 6:1-3) |
An angel purifies Isaiah’s lips with a burning coal
(Is. 6:5-9) |
12 |
St Bartholomew |
Virtue - Perseverance |
Vice - Inconstancy |
10 |
St Jude (or St Simon) |
Virtue - Obedience |
Vice - Rebellion |
8 |
St John the Evangelist |
Virtue - Concord |
Vice - Discord |
6 |
St James the Less |
Virtue - Gentleness |
Vice - Violence |
4 |
St Andrew |
Virtue - Patience |
Vice - Impatience |
2 |
St Peter |
Virtue - Courage |
Vice - Cowardice |
0 (trum) |
The ‘Beau Dieu’ |
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1 |
St Paul |
Virtue - Faith |
Vice - Idolatry |
3 |
St James the Great |
Virtue - Hope |
Vice - Despair |
5 |
St Thomas |
Virtue - Charity |
Vice - Avarice |
7 |
St Matthew |
Virtue - Chastity |
Vice - Lust |
9 |
St Phillip |
Virtue - Prudence |
Vice - Folly |
11 |
St Simon (or Jude) |
Virtue - Humility |
Vice - Pride |
13 |
Ezekiel |
Ezekiel’s vision of the wheel within another wheel (Ez. 1:15-16) |
The Lord with ruler and plumb-line as architect of the sanctuary (Ez. 40:3) |
15 |
Daniel |
Dan. in the lion’s den (Dan. 6:16-17) |
Dan. interprets the writing on the wall at Belshazzar’s feast (Dan. 5:17-28) |
17b |
Nahum |
Nahum points at a pool that is all that is left of Nineveh (Nahum 2:8) |
The prophet curses the city (Nahum 3:1ff) |
17a |
The Ninevites flee in despair from their deserted city (Nahum 2:8) |
Nahum’s parable that Nineveh will crumble like figs falling from a shaken tree (Nahum 3:12) |
19 |
Habakkuk |
The Lord forces the prophet to write his vision of the final doom of Babylon (Hab. 2:1-2) |
An angel carries the ever reluctant Habakkuk to feed Daniel in the lion’s den (Dan. 14:32-36) |
21b |
Zephaniah (aka Sophronius) |
The Lord smites the Ethiopians with His sword (Zeph. 2:12) |
The beasts of the world lie down in the ruins of Nineveh (Zeph. 2:14) |
21a |
The Lord searches the ruins of Jerusalem with lights seeking those who rejected him (Zeph. 1:12-13) |
The ruined Nineveh with the hedgehog on the threshold and a raven on the lintel (Zeph. 2:14) |
23 |
St Luxor |
Zodiac -Gemini |
Calendar (May) - bearded man with rose-bush and pear-tree. |
25 |
St Warlus |
Zodiac - Taurus |
Calendar (Apr) - young man hawking |
27 |
St Fiscian |
Zodiac - Aries |
Calendar (Mar) - tending the vines |
29 |
? bishop saint ? |
Zodiac - Pisces |
Calendar (Feb) - Man wrapped up warm & cooking a fish (Lenten fasting) |
31 |
St Domice |
Zodiac - Aquarius |
Calendar (Jan) - banquet scene |
33 |
St Firmin as confessor (?) |
Zodiac - Capricorn |
Calendar (Dec) killing pigs |
35 (trum) |
St Firmin as martyr |
6 scenes from life of St Firmin [see Sandron p.122] |
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37 |
St Honorius (?) |
Zodiac - Sagittarius |
Calendar (Nov) - sowing corn |
39 |
Censing angel |
Zodiac - Scorpio |
Calendar (Oct) - treading grapes |
41 |
St Ache |
Zodiac - Libra |
Calendar (Sep) beating an apple tree |
43 |
St Acheul |
Zodiac - Virgo |
Calendar (Aug) threshing wheat |
45 |
Angel |
Zodiac - Leo |
Calendar (Jul) gathering hay |
47 |
St Ulphe |
Zodiac - Cancer |
Calendar (Jun) cutting hay |
49b |
Haggai |
In contrast with the ruined Temple, the ‘house of sinful delights’ stands strong and proud (Hag. 1:4) |
The heavens withhold the dew and the trees wither (Hag. 1:10-11) |
49a |
The Lord shows Haggai (lower quatrefoil) a vision (upper quatrefoil) of the ruins of the temple (Hag 1:3-4) |
51 |
Zechariah |
Zech. is forced by an angel (lower quatrefoil) to witness the vision (upper quatrefoil) of a woman carried off in an urn by two winged figures (Zech. 5:5-11) |
53 |
Malachi |
The Lord rebukes 2 men, one of whom strikes him with a spear (Mal. 1:7) |
The Lord lashes the priests who have departed from his path (Mal. 2:1ff) |
