[St M.45L] [St M.45] 45 5 “ 9 ½ September bears home grapes in basket 6 the scales above 7 “ 9 ½ October in a conical hat. digging with a long spade the scorpion above November seems catching small birds Sagittarius above December killing pigs goat above All the names have been painted in plain latin letters as OTOBR - I cannot see termination of armnext to this inside The intermediate archivolt ^ is coated with plain slabs of grey archivolt marble Then the inner ^ has on it outside a series of figures much crowded. in a twined wreath of cylindrical stems with vine leaves the twining of it & small fillings most lovely: and ingenious . but inelegant on the whole. - thesubsoffit of it has two monstrous figures upholding the leaves out of which the rolling frieze rises: one has two serpents out of his mouth who bites his limbs the other has two biting her breasts animals generally dead or devouring each other are mixed among the leafage: several birds however [continues p. 46]
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