Description: Angels holding banderoles. Sarah Carrig Bond's dissertation locates this deposed capital at the entrance to the choir, in the rond-point [check if it is south side]
Now in V&A.
Reference: The inscriptions are the first verses of the gospel. In order of the citations presened here, we find Matthew (1,1), Mark (1,3), Luc (1,5), and John (1,1).
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1. LIBER GENERATIONIS/
2. JHESU XRISTI FILI DAVID
The book of the generation (of Christ). Jesus Christ, son of David
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1. VOX CLAMANTIS IN DE/
2. SERTO PARATE VIAM DOMINI
A voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord
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1. FUIT IN DIEBUS HERODIS REGIS/
2. JUDAE SACERDOS QUIDAM
There was in the days of King Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacariah
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1. IN PRINCIPIO ERAT VERBUM/
2. ET VERBUM ERAT
In the beginning there was the word, and the word was…