[Footnote II-63: Idée Générale, p. 307, 308.] On each page are four portraits,--two at the top, and two at the bottom,--intended for the prophets, and other holy men, whose writings are cited in the text. The middle part of the page between each pair of portraits consists of three compartments, each of which is occupied with a subject from the Old or the New Testament. In the 14th page, however, letter +o+, two of the compartments--that in the centre, and the adjoining one to the right--are both occupied by the same subject, Christ’s entry into Jerusalem. The greatest portion of the explanatory text is at the top on each side of the uppermost portraits; and on each side of those below there is a Leonine, or rhyming Latin, verse. A similar verse underneath those portraits forms the concluding line of each page. Texts of Scripture, and moral or explanatory sentences, having reference to the subjects in the three compartments, also appear on scrolls. The following cut, which is a reduced copy of the 14th page, letter +k+, will afford a better idea of the arrangement of the subjects, and of the explanatory texts, than any lengthened description. The whole of this subject--both text and figures--appears intended to inculcate the necessity of restraining appetite. The inscription to the right, at the top, contains a reference to the 3rd chapter of Genesis, wherein there is to be found an account of the temptation and fall of Adam and Eve, who were induced by the Serpent to taste the forbidden fruit. This temptation of our first parents through the medium of the palate, was, as may be gathered from the same inscription, figurative of the temptation of Christ after his fasting forty days in the wilderness, when the Devil came to him and said, “If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.” [Illustration] In the inscription to the left, reference is made to the 25th chapter of Genesis, as containing an account of Esau, who, in consequence of his unrestrained appetite, sold his birth-right for a mess of pottage. In the compartments in the middle of the page, are three illustrations of the preceding text. In the centre is seen the pattern to imitate,--Christ resisting the temptation of the Devil; and on each side the examples to deter,--Adam and Eve with the forbidden fruit; and hungry Esau receiving the mess of pottage from Jacob.