Chartres west side, left portal, left hand side
• Detail below figure beside door.
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Archives
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Window 038 - Charlemagne (unrestored)
Bottom to top, left to right:
• Row 01: Furriers as donors.
[Conquest of Jerusalem]
• 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.
• Diamond 07: Army leaves on the Spanish Crusade, Archbishop Turpin of Rheims attends with Charlemagne.
• Row 08: Charlemagne prays prior to assaulting Pampulauna (Pamplona); Charlemagne takes the city from Moors.
• Circle 09: Charlemagne builds a church to Saint James, who instigated the crusade.
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North tower.
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Window 061 - Joseph, Son of Jacob (restored)
Bottom to top, left to right
• Row 01 (half moons): Bankers, as donors
• Row 02: Joseph's dream, with sun, moon, and stars bowing down to him.
• Row 03: Jacob sends Joseph to his brothers; Brothers plot against Joseph
• Row 04: Brothers put into pit.
• Row 05 (half moons): Sold to Ishmaelite traders as slave; they bring the coat of many colors to Jacob.
• Row 06: Sold to Potiphar; Potiphar's wife tempts him
• Row 07: She accuses him to Potiphar.
• Row 08: Potiphar arrests Joseph; Has him thrown into prison.
• Row 09: Pharaoh dreams
• Row 10: Seven fat sheep, seven thin cattle of Pharaoh's dream; Meanwhile, in prison, Joseph interprets dreams of cupbearer and baker.
• Row 11: Joseph interprets dream, made governor; Graineries are filled for lean times.
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Window 009 - Miracles of the Virgin (restored)
Bottom to top, left to right.
• Corners 1: Butchers, donors of the window [13th century]
• Quatrefoil 2: Mary (12 o'clock), with stonecutting and hauling for cathedral (3 and 9 o'clock), Chartres cathedral south tower (center), wine for workers (6 o'clock) [13th century]
• Quatrefoils 3: Stone cutters, masons, etc. as part of cathedral building [Modern, 1926]
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Europe 2 1998 Slides 20
RIGHT to LEFT
Window 118 - 2nd right, clerestory, apse: Daniel and Jeremiah
Clothiers as donors, Daniel, Jeremiah, Winged creature from Ezekiel's vision with face of a man.
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Window 119 - 1st right, clerestory, apse: Moses and Isaiah
Bakers as donors, Moses with burning bush, Isaiah, Angel with Censer.
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Window 120 - Center, clerestory, apse: Mary
Bakers as donors, Annunciation, Visitation, Mary as queen
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Window 121 - 1st left, clerestory, apse: Aaron
Geoffery, a hosier, and his wife as donors, Aaron and Angel with Censer.
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Window 122 - 2nd left, clerestory, apse: Aaron
Butchers as donors, Ezekiel, Daniel, cherub
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Window 001 – Jesse Tree, detailBottom to top: Jesse
Window 001 - Jesse Tree, detail
Bottom to top: Jesse
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Europe 1 1998 Slides 124
Window 047 - 14th century grisailles, with Saint Lawrence
Saint Lawrence on the gridiron
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Europe 1 1998 Slides 119
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† Window 095 - South rose: Christ in glory, after Revelation of St. John (unrestored, detail)
Surrounded by the four beasts and 24 elders of the apocalypse. Note the coat of arms (blue and yellow checkerboard) of the donors, Pierre Mauclerc of Dreux-Brittany
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