TYMPANUM • Adoration of the Magi and then warned not to return to Herod.
LINTEL: • Left: Nativity • Right: Angel appears to shepherds.
INNER ARCH
• First archivolt: ten angels, lowest two on dragons, the rest on clouds • Second archivolt: four foolish virgins on left, four foolish on the right • Third archivolt: bottom on each side contain the other two virgins for a total of ten.
• Third, continued: The three theological virtues and equivalent sins. † Faith (chalice receiving blood of the Lamb) with Infidelity (eyes bandaged).
Window 054 - Saint Germain of Auxerre [pre AD 1236] (restored)
In many places, the left right pairing shows a "cause and effect" relationship. The window is difficult to photograph with the east wall buttresses of the north trancept, and the "Our Lady of the Pillar" adoration with candles et al. in front of it.
• Row 05: Demon spreads disease; Germain heals his flock. • Row 06: Saint Germain and Saint Loup sail to England despite a demon-raised tempest; Saint Germain calms the storm. • Row 07: Saint Germain preaches in England; he heals a blind girl. • Row 08: Demons set fire to area in which the two missionaries are living (2 panels). • Row 09: Germain has horse stolen en route to Italy; Thief brings the horse back and Germain blesses him. • Row 10: Germain dies at Revenna; Soul ascends to heaven.
• Row 01: Wheelwrights, carpenters, coopers (barrel-makers) as donors. See also donors in the very small squares bottom left and right. Perhaps appropriate given the ark's water-tight construction of wood. The coopers likewise make the barrels that will hold the wine which Noah eventually grows. • Row 02: Giants, sons and daughters of men (two panels) [see Genesis 6:4, the 'Nephilim']. • Row 03: Giants, sons and daughters of men; God talks to Noah; Giants, sons and daughters of men. • Row 04: Noah's three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; Noah's wife and daughters-in-law. • Row 05: Two people (perhaps walking away from the Ark?); Noah and a son build the ark; Animals (including dogs and sheep) begin to gather two by two. • Row 06: Animals (horses?) begin to gather two by two; Animals (large cats?) begin to gather two by two. • Row 07: Animals (including camel and bird) begin to gather two by two; Ark in the water; Drowning of all other animals and people. • Row 08: Drowning of all other animals and people (two panels). • Row 09: Drowning of all other animals and people; Noah releases dove from window of the ark; Dove flies away and returns with olive leaf.
• Daniel (another prophet of Christ's coming, outermost) with the Visitation nearer the door (Mary on a burning bush, symbol of the Immaculate Conception and Elizabeth in the middle).
Right: • Isaiah - hold flowering stem, the "rod out of Jesse." Jessee beneath. • Jeremiah - with Greek cross • Simeon - testified of Christ at the Presentation at the Temple, holds the infant Christ.
