Source - Canterbury Stained Glass

Many window panels have inscriptions or names written in the stained glass. Those inscriptions (and translations) are noted against each window. Text in [square brackets] is not visible in the glass but has been reconstructed.

Items referenced

The items below have references to this source text

Window panel /
Eilward of Westoning, panel 1

Pignus e[rat] modic[um] furtum censetur iniquum
The surety was modest; it is judged a wrongful theft

Window panel /
Eilward of Westoning, panel 2

Inc[itatu]m retro, [sa]nct[us] prodire feretro
Behind the spurred-on man, the saint comes out of a shrine

Window panel /
Eilward of Westoning, panel 3

[Ecce ei]cta sunt lumina membra resecta
Look, his eyes are put out and members cut off

Window panel /
Eilward of Westoning, panel 4

Reddita succre[scunt lumina] sensimque recrescunt
The restored eyes grow up and gradually increase

Window panel /
Eilward of Westoning, panel 5

Distribuit dextra monstrat rediviva sinistra
With the right hand he distributes, with the left he points out the renewed

Window panel /
Eilward of Westoning, panel 6

Astat narranti populus magnalia santi
The people stand by the man telling of the great works of the saint

Window panel /
Goditha of Hayes, panel 1

Que venit egrota turgescit ydropica tota
The ill woman who comes is all swollen with dropsy

Window panel /
Goditha of Hayes, panel 2

Gustat distenta cute fit gustu macile[n]ta
She tastes with a distended skin, by the act of tasting she becomes thin.

Window panel /
Goditha of Hayes, panel 3

Venerat inflata pe[re]gre redit atenuata
She came on pilgrimage puffed up, she returns made slim.

Inscription in glass

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