hi Mike,
It seems to me ...
(just following this first example, that you gave)
The word "Caritas" appears in the line below the great field (10x12) and also below the section with door and windows in a sentence together with "Turris sapientia" (marked with "red" by myself ... also I distributed some other "changes" to make the things, about which talk obvious).
The relevant sentence is "mirrored" by a vertical text right from the 10x12 field, which also contains the "Turris Sapientia", but not "Caritas".
Likely one should assume, that the vertical sentence describes the ascending table (12 columns), and that the horizontal sentence with "Caritas" describes the horizontal 10 rows.
Similar one might perceive that at modern tables.
The whole 10x12 table (read from left and from bottom) start with "Amor" (row 1) in the dominant column (painted in red), possibly a synonym or a relative of the word Caritas.
At the last two rows (top rows) we find in the dominant column the word "Spes" (row 11) and also in the dominant column the word "Fides" (row 12).
In the transcription and a Latin, which I can not really read, we have ...
From this I understand, that Caritas is meant as "mother of the scheme" and so outside of it, but it has a representative in the table, "Amor", and Amor opens the table.
Studying the words, which appear in the table, my impression is, that the row of Caritas has lovely words, and the row of Spes has nasty words ("vices" and one should avoid them; so "avoid the bad things") and Fides has mainly the character of "search the good things instead".
Following now the unknown content of the 9 other rows, so it seems, that rows 2-4 are determined by Amor-or-Caritas character, row 5-7 seems to belong to Spes (meeting the bad things of life) and row 8-10 to Fides.
Comparing this with life, one has the "loving things" in youth (1-4), followed by the Spes-world (5-7) and getting a "mid-life crisis" (recommended is Compassio, Misericordia and Clemencia), finding then "Fides-values" (8-10) and finally concentrating in a summary of the preceding experiences Spes (11, avoid the bad things) and then Fides (doing the right things).
Well, then we would have "Spes on a ship in dangerous waters", as recently discussed.
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The fourth row has "venerare parentes", and the catholic church has as the 4th law of "10 commandments", so possibly the whole is an arrangement, which extended the "10 laws" (likely at row 1-10).
But row 8 has "non occides" (which should be law 5). So likely "venerare parentes" is possibly just accidental on row 4.
The "Cardinal (natural) virtues precede the field with the theological virtues. There is another order connected to 4 values.