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

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’

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]

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)