Stained glass of the middle ages in England & France . window, and corresponds exactly inthe arrangement of its subjects with one of the lostwindows in the choir of Canterbury as described inthe manuscript catalogue before mentioned. Theverses, however, which were in the Canterburywindow are omitted at Sens. To the mediaeval mindthe parable of the Good Samaritan was much morethan a mere illustration ofneighbourliness. Tothem the man who went down from Jerusalem—the City of God—to Jericho, was Adamleaving Paradise, the thieves were the seven deadlysins, the Priest and the Levite were the law of
Stained glass of the middle ages in England & France . window, and corresponds exactly inthe arrangement of its subjects with one of the lostwindows in the choir of Canterbury as described inthe manuscript catalogue before mentioned. Theverses, however, which were in the Canterburywindow are omitted at Sens. To the mediaeval mindthe parable of the Good Samaritan was much morethan a mere illustration ofneighbourliness. Tothem the man who went down from Jerusalem—the City of God—to Jericho, was Adamleaving Paradise, the thieves were the seven deadlysins, the Priest and the Levite were the law ofMoses, and the Good Samaritan was Christ is this reading of the subject which is hereillustrated. From the fact that at Sens it isisolated, while at Canterbury it was, as we haveseen, one of a series, I think we may conclude thatSens is the later of the two. The drawing of themedallions resembles that of the older work atCanterbury, whereas the setting of them is a little PLATE XV THK FLIGHT INTO EGYPT, POITIERS Late Thirteenth Century. iA><yn5«c6^B sfimj W5 lau
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