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The arts and crafts of older Spain (1907)

Williams, Leonard, b. 1871 · London : T.N. Foulis · leaf 88

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ther end of the frontal were six of the apostles,three above and three beneath, separated by* beautiful columns and surrounded by floral de-coration. The upper part was thus inscribed :— HANC TABULAM DIDACUS PR^SUL JACOBITA SECUNDUS TEMPORE QUINQUENNI FECIT EPISCOPI MARCAS ARGENTI DE THESAURO… … THE VIROEN DE LA VEGA (Salamanca) GOLD, SILVER, AND JEWEL WORK decessor ; It is not known precisely at what time ;but both Morales and Medina saw and wroteabout it in the sixteenth century. Another ornament which Aymerich describes,namely, the baldaquino or cimborius, has likewisefaded from the…

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