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Window 038 - Charlemagne (restored)

Bottom to top, left to right:

• Row 01: Furriers as donors.

[Conquest of Jerusalem]

• Row 04: Charlemagne defeats Saracens; Charlemange refuses all reward save relics he has found.
• Circle 05: Charlemagne gives relics to the Church.

[Spanish Crusades - from Chronicle of Pseudo-Turpin]

• Row 06: Charlemagne asks learned about Milky Way; Saint James the Major appears to Charlemagne in a dream, tells him to follow the Milky Way to Spain.

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Chartres, north side, center, night illumination

OT prophets, identity unknown.

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Chartres, north side, left portal

TYMPANUM, detail
• Adoration of the Magi and then warned not to return to Herod. Note star.

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Windows 017 - Zodiac and Labours of the Months (unrestored)

Top to bottom, left to right:

• Row 06: April (budding plants and vines); Taurus.
• Row 07: July (cutting hay); Cancer.
• Row 08: June (cutting wheat) & Leo combined.
• Row 09: August (thresh wheat); Virgo.
• Row 10: September (harvest and tramp grapes); Libra.
• Row 11: October (place wine in barrels) & Scorpio.
• Row 12: November (slaughter hog); Saggitarius
• Row 13: December (feasting) Capricorn
• Row 14: Christ with Alpha and Omega (all encompassing, even of the tasks of the year and the cosmos represented by the zodiac's progression).

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Chartres, North side, right portal

INNER ARCH

Right:

† Dressed in armor (medieval!) he leads two Mideanites captive after defeating them in battle.

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Chartres, south side, window, detail

duplicate (WNItSHsEQemR1MR7bFSgZw)

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Window 037 - Saint James Major

Bottom to top, left to right (some rows have the story proceed RIGHT to left; marked '!' where this occurs:

• Row 01: Furrier as donor; Draper as donor measures cloth.
• Row 02: Christ gives James a pilgrim's staff (perhaps assign to mission in Galacia?)
• Row 03: Demon inspires Hermogenes (Almogines), a magician, to send his disciple, Filetus, to confront James; James preaches (!).
• Row 04: James and Filetus meet, and the saint converts him.
• Row 05: Filetus reports his conversion to Hermogenes; Hermogenes binds his apprentence with magic.

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Window 005 - Mary Magdalen (detail, restored)

• Panels 1,2,3: Water-bearers, the donors of the window

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Window 060 - Saint Nicholas (third window about him) (restored, detail)
Order is not regular; numbered by panel (see diagram).

• 1-5: Apothicaries and haberdashers as donors. (5) merchant with balance.

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