The Evangelist, on the right, holds a book and turns to speak with, or receive inspiration from, his symbol the winged man. The
fragmentary remains of a wing are visible between the symbol’s shoulder and the border of the panel. No inscription survives on this
badly damaged panel, but as the panel with John and his symbol that originally capped this side was inscribed with the opening lines of
his gospel, it is likely that the opening phrase of Matthew’s gospel (‘Liber generationis Iesu Christi’; ‘The book of the generation of
Jesus Christ’) would have been inscribed in the border around this panel.
