• Row 02: Roman Emperor Constantine sends messenger to Charlemagne; the Emperor has had a dream of Charlemagne conquering Jerusalem. • Diamond 03: Charlemagne, victorious, is greeted by Constantine. • Row 04: Charlemagne defeats Saracens; Charlemange refuses all reward save relics he has found. • Circle 05: Charlemagne gives relics to the Church.
• Simeon - testified of Christ at the Presentation at the Temple, holds the infant Christ. • John the Baptist - note coat of camel hair, and he points to the lamb of God. Dragon beneath. • Peter - dressed as pope, the continuity with Melchizedek, his opposite on the left. He stands on the rock.
• 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. • Row 10: Corpses of men and animals remain when water dries up (two panels). • Row 11: Raven eats the drowned corpses; Animals leaving ark (two panels). • Row 12: Noah and family leave ark; Animals leave ark. • Row 13: Noah makes wine (from vines above); Noah curses Ham; Noah gets drunk. • Row 14: Planting of first vines (made into wine in previous row); Shem and Japheth (with wives) kneel to pray. • Row 15: Angel, Rainbow, Angel. • Row 16: Angel, Angel.
• Row 06: Attaches himself to somone; sent to herd swine; decides to arise and go to his Father. • Row 07: Travels home; Father runs out to greet him; servant brings the best robe. • Row 08: Killing the fatted calf; Feast prepared; Father comes out to speak with the eldest son. • Row 09: The feast, with father, eldest, and youngest son together. (An optimistic ending which is left unstated in the gospel.) • Row 10: Christ with angels.
Chartres, north side, right portal. These are OT types or prefigurements of Christ.
TYMPANUM
• Job, scrapes self with potshard on dunghill while the satan torments him, three friends and wife. God watches from above.
LINTEL
Solomon judges the two women and the baby; servant draws sword to slay child on the far left. Those on the right are admiring Jews (who ought, one suspects, to be admiring the wisdom of Christ whose wisdom and judgment Solomon prefigures.)
JAMB Figures Left: • Balaam on his ass; • Queen of Sheba on Ethiopian slave; • Solomon.
Right: • Jesus ben Sirach, standing on the temple whose reconstruction was wrongly attributed to him; • Judith, standing on dog as symbol of fidelity; • Joseph who was sold into Egypt, standing on Potipher's wife to whom the devil whispers.
INNER ARCH • First archivolt: twelve angels bearing sun, moon, and stars. • Second archivolt: lives of Sampson on the left, Gideon on the right • Third archivolt: lives of Esther and Judith (prefiguring Mary) on left and right respectively • Fourth archivolt: Tobias, son of Tobit, who restored vision to his father as Christ would to Israel.
• Quatrefoil 4: Procession of the Sancta Camisia (relic of Chartres, the "veil of the virgin," held to have been worn during the delivery of Christ) [Modern, 1926] • Quatrefoil 5: Mary, surrounded by angels, prophets, and two bishops of Chartres: Saint Yves (Ivo of Chartres, c. 1040-23 Dec 1115) and Saint Fulbert (c. between 952 and 970 – 10 April 1028) [Modern, 1926]
