turies.Evidently, too, it dates from about the lifetimeof the Cid, while the rings with which it is fittedshow it to have been a kind of trunk intended tobe carried on the backs of sumpter-mules or horses. After the Roman domination in this country, theLatin term capsa was applied to every kind… … GOTHIC CHAIR (i5//( Century) FURNITURE of Spanish mediaeval burial-chests are those ofDona Urraca, preserved in the Sagrario of thecathedral of Palencia, and of San Isidro, patronof Madrid. The former, mentioned by painstak-ing Ponz, and by Pulgar in his Secular andEcclesiastical Annals of…
Decorative arts -- Spain History
Internet Archive · Wellesley College Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
