Availing ourselves of the Author’s remarks, p. 40, we yet prefer, on account of some inaccuracies in his decyphering the Latin contractions, giving our own description of this plate. The page is in _three_ divisions, all in the Gothic decorative style, with separating archways between the subjects. In the _upper_ division, in the centre, are seated, each in his niche, “Isaya” and “Dauid.” (See Plate VI.) In the upper corners, on the right hand of the first, and on the left hand of the second, are Latin inscriptions,—the former relating to Eve’s seed bruising the serpent’s head, Genesis iii. c., and the latter to Gideon’s fleece saturated with dew, Judges vi. c. The _middle_ compartment is a triptych, consisting of Eve’s Temptation, the Annunciation by the Angel to the Blessed Virgin; and Gideon in his armour, on his knees, with his shield on the ground, watching the fleece. Over Eve’s Temptation there is a scroll issuing from Isaiah’s niche, and having this inscription: ~“Ecce virgo concipiet et pariet filium,”~—_Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son_, Is. vii. 14; Eve stands near the tree of life, emblematized by God the Father among the branches,—and erect before her is the serpent, almost on the tip of its tail, with its body slightly curved. In the Annunciation appears a ray of light breathed upon the Virgin from God the Father seated in the clouds, and in the ray are the dove, the emblem of the Holy Spirit, descending, and an infant Christ bearing his cross; the Angel stands before Mary addressing to her the salutation, “~Ave gratiâ plena, dominus tecum~,”—_Hail full of grace, the Lord is with thee_, Luke i. 28; and Mary, seated with a book on her knees, and her hands devoutly crossed on her breast, replies, “~Ecce, ancilla domini, fiat mihi~,”—Behold, _the handmaid of the Lord, be it unto me_, Luke i. 38. Of Gideon and the fleece little needs be said, except that over him from the niche of David issues a scroll with the words “~Descendet dominus sicut pluvia in vellus~,” in the Latin Vulgate, Ps. lxxi. 6, _i.e. The Lord shall descend as rain upon the fleece_; but in the English version, Ps. lxxii. 6, _He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass_. The Angel also addressing Gideon bears a scroll, not quite legible, but evidently meaning, “~Dominus tecum virorum fortissime~,” Judges vi. 12,—English version, _The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour_. The _lower_ compartment, like the upper, has in the centre two arched niches, which contain, the one Ezekiel, the other Jeremiah; beneath Eve’s temptation and Gideon’s omen are the alliterative and rhyming couplets ~“Vipera vim perdet, Sine vi pariente puella.”~ and ~“Rore madet vellus Permansit arida tellus;”~[38] and beneath the Annunciation, “~Virgo salutatur, Innupta manens gravidatur~.”