Window 007 - Death and Assumption of Mary (restored)
Bottom to top, left to right. • Row 1: Cobblers, donors of the window • Medallion 2: Apostles around Mary's deathbed • Medallion 3 (small-missing): Jesus receives soul (small child). • Medallion 4: Mary's funeral (note the coffin held up at the top). • Medallion 5 (small): Angels with censers • Medallion 6: Mary placed in the tomb surrounded by apostles. • Medallion 7 (small): Mary's bodily assumption to heaven, flanked by two angels. • Medallion 8: Jesus crowns Mary as Queen of Heaven. • Medallion 9 (small): Angels bear the crown.
† Window 145 - North rose: Rose of France glorifying the Virgin (restored)
Virgin in center with Infant Jesus. Surrounded by four doves, four angels, and four Thrones. These are followed by twelve kings of Judah, Mary's ancestors. The outer ring contains twelve minor prophets.
The window was donated while Queen Blanche was regent of France (circa 1230). The arms of France alternating with Castile are seen below the rose itself. The entire ensemble is a none-too-subtle bit of royal propaganda, with Mary (the Queen of Heaven) at the center of it all. Note too that the figures below the rose in the lancets contrast a legitimate righteous sovereign with corrupt, foolish, or fallen ones. Blanche seems to have wanted no doubt about how she ought to be considered.
Window 060 - Saint Nicholas (third window about him) (restored) Order is not regular; numbered by panel (see diagram).
(Lower cloverleaf) • 9: Nicholas in school. • 10-11: When a student in Myra, he drops money into a house to spare three girls without doweries from entering prostitution. He flees rather than be thanked. • 12: Chosen as new bishop.
(Side half moons):
• 16-17: Nicholas addressing the three princes, Nepotian, Ursus and Apilion; The three princes saved by Nicholas carrying gifts from the Emperor. [Houvet saw this as distributing the corn of previous.]
(Upper cloverleaf) • 20: Nicholas saves a baby from boiling, a miracle. • 21-22: Couple's nly child falls overboard on trip to Nicholas' shrine; They find the child safe when they arrive at the shrine.
Window 060 - Saint Nicholas (third window about him) (restored) Order is not regular; numbered by panel (see diagram).
• 1-5: Apothicaries and haberdashers as donors. (3): Selling belt; (4): apothecary; (5) merchant with balance. • 6-7: Saint Nicholas is birthed and bathed. • 8: Nicholas refuses to suckle his mother except Mondays and Fridays.
• Upper rows: Coronation of the Virgin, flanked by John the Baptist on the left, Saint John the Divine on the right. • Upper: Crucifixion and Last Judgment.
Bottom to top, left to right. Circles start at 6 o'clock, proceed left to right: • Panels 1,2,3: Cobblers, the donors of the window - • Quadrant 4: Jesus tells a parable. • Quadrant 5: Man leaves Jerusalem for Jericho • Center 6, quadrant 7: Thieves leap out to attack and rob him • Quadrant 8: Priest and levite pass by without helping. - • Panels 9,10,11: Samaritan binds his wounds, places the man on his donkey, and takes him to a waiting inn-keeper. - • Quadrant 12: Samaritan cares for wounded man at the inn. • Quadrant 13: God creates man, (breathing into Adam the breath of life?). • Center 14: Adam in paradise. • Quadrant 15: God makes woman from rib ('tsela') as Adam sleeps. The appearance of the legs matching both Adam and Eve is a beautiful bit of work, rich with symbolism. • Quadrant 16: God forbids the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil. Note the red serpent already coiled about the trunk. - • Panel 17: They sit under the tree (a first step toward sin, perhaps?). • Panel 18: Satan tempts them and they eat. Note the dark, ominous red background which echoes the serpent from Quadrant 16, and contrasts with the refreshing blue of the previous. • Panel 19: God calls to them, but they hide and make fig-leaf aprons.
• Quadrant 20: Cherubim drives them from the garden and tree of life. • Quadrant 21: Adam digs while Eve spins with a distaff. • Center 22: God/Christ judges their sin but also promises redemption. {? makes covenant with them) • Quadrant 23: Cain takes an axe to Abel's head; the first murder. Abel's name can be made out in text below the panel. Like Abel--and the man in the parable--we have fallen victim to a fallen world, and lie wounded and bleeding. • Quadrant 24: Christ sits to redeem and judge, surrounded by angels. Reminds us that he is the ultimate figure to whom the parable of the Samaritan points.
• Row 13: Jacob sends sons to Egypt looking for food; They travel to Egypt. • Row 14: Joseph receives his brothres. • Row 15 (two half moons): Joseph hides cup in Benjamin's bag, and it is discovered. • Row 16 (two half moons and lower diamond): Brothers return and bring Jacob to Israel (three panels total). • Row 17: Jacob and sons leave for Egypt; Jacob and Joseph are reunited. • Row 18: Christ in Glory.
