Collins, W. W. (William Wiehe), b. 1862 · London : Heinemann; New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 236
date from the fourteenthcentury. Early carved work of the same period is foundin the elaborate retablo over the High Altar, whichis surmounted by three fine processional crosses.The baldaquino, also of wood, is covered like theretablo with plates of silver. It is a mass ofprecious metal, enamelled… … GERONA who died in 1058, predeceasing her husband bytwenty-four years. The sacristy itself contains aremarkable piece of twelfth-century crewel work,said to be the earliest known specimen in existence.It is covered with figures of a type similar to thoseof contemporary MSS. The Romanesque…
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