EXPLANATION OP THE PLATES.

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PLATE IV.

VERSO OF THE SECOND LEAF, MARKED IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY WITH THE

LETTER d.

Christ on the cross nailed with three nails, sinking from exhaustion so as tothrow all the weight of the body upon the arms. A cruciferous disk is fixeda little below the intersection of the arms of the cross in the place where thehead should be. The letters I. N. R. I. are inscribed on the scroll nailed tothe head of the cross. This figure is excessively contorted, rather in the mannerof the fourteenth century than of the age in which Wilars lived. It appears tous to have been rather a study for a painting,—perhaps an attempt to escapefrom the conventional forms of the age,—than the sketch of a real piece of sculp-ture. A death’s head has been rudely scrawled by a later hand on the groundwhere the cross is planted, but is omitted in the engraving.