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Title: The Archaeological journal
Year: 1844 (1840s)
Authors: British Archaeological Association. Central Committee Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Central Committee Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Central Committee Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Council Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Royal Archaeological Institute (Great Britain)
Subjects: Archaeology -- Periodicals Middle Ages -- History Periodicals Great Britain -- Antiquities Periodicals
Publisher: (London : Longman, Rrown,(sic) Green, and Longman
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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vays in it, though nowslightly misplaced, and seven which were in the sixth of theseries. The Birth of Christ and His Early Life, togetherwith the types from the Old Testament, which were consi-dered symbolical, are depicted in the first fourteen panels.Thus, Balaam on his ass and with his star and the ProphetsIsaiah and Jeremiah support at either side a representationof the Magi riding towards Bethlehem, the star appearingover their heads. In the third row again, we have theMother and Child in the centre, with the Magi and Shepherdsin one panel, and Joseph and his Brethren in the other. Inthe next series, Solomon and the Queen of Sheba should beat one side, but this panel is gone ; and at the other westill see the prophet with Jeroboam sacrificing. In thecentre the Magi, asleep, all together in one bed, are warnedby a dream not to return to Herod. After this point theseries is interrupted, and we have a picture of Ahab withJezebel and Elijah, which was in another part of the original
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Cauterbiiry Cathedral. The first remainiug Wiudow iu the North Aisle. Fenestra Secuuda, MS. C. C. Coll. Ox. Three of the Central Compartmeuts. EARLY GLASS IN CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. 9 arrangement, and underneath a legend wliicli appears tobelong to a picture of three holy widows and virgins. Nextwe have a very quaint scene. Shem, Ham, and Japhet areengaged in dividing the earth, wdiich one of them holds inhis hands like a gorgeously-painted map. A ligure standsby, which may be intended for Noah, but from the inscrip-tion and from Battelys MS. it seems more likely it isintended to represent a personification of the Church. Twoscenes from the Parable of the Sower, and a picture in whichthe rich of this world are represented as counting their ill-gotten gold, all from the sixth window, complete this one asit now is. In the other window we have a number of scenes of a verymixed character. Four full circles are flanked by six halfcircles, and tw^o smaller panels. The circles are filled with(

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