[103] This I suppose is the chapel of San Ildefonso, founded in 1466 by the Cardinal D. Juan de Mella, Bishop of Zamora.
[104] M. Villa-Amil, who gives a view of this transept, has converted this arcade into a row of windows, presented the doorway with a sculptured tympanum, and entirely altered the character of the archivolt enrichment.
[105] On the north side, the figures and inscriptions are as follow:—
- 1. Abel. Vox sanguinis.
- 2. Abraam. Tres vidit; unum adoravit.
- 3. Joseph. Melius est ut venundetur.
- 4. Melchisedec. Rex Salem proferens panem et vinum.
- 5. Job. De terra surrecturus sum.
- 6. Aaron. Invenit germinans.
- 7. Samson. De (comedente exivit cibus).
- 8. Samuel. Loquere Domine.
- 9. David. Dominus dixit ad me, Filius.
- 10. Jeremias. Dominus.
- 11. Ezekiel. Porta hæc.
- 12. Oseas (with cross botonnée on breast). Addam ultra.
- 13. Amos. Super tribus.
- 14. Micheas. Percutient maxillam.
- 15. Abacuc. Exultabo in Deo Jesu meo.
- 16. Sophonias. Juxta est dies.
- 17. Zacharias. Jesus erat.
- 18. Nabuchodonosor. Quartus similis Filio Dei.
- 19. Virgilius Bucol. Progenies.
On the south side:—
- 1. Moyses. Prophetam excitabit.
- 2. Isaac. Vox quidem vox.
- 3. Jacob. Non auferetur Sceptrum de Juda.
- 4. Balaam. Orietur stella ex.
- 5. Gedeon. Si ros solo.
- 6. Helias. Ambulavit in fortitudine.
- 7. Helisæus. Vade, et lavare septies.
- 8. Salomon. Levent servi mei.
- 9. Tobias. Jherusalem.
- 10. Isayas. Ecce Virgo concipiet.
- 11. Baruch. Statuam Testamentum illis.
- 12. Daniel. Septuaginta hebdomades.
- 13. Johel. Magnus enim dies Domini.
- 14. Jonas. De ventre.
- 15. Naum. Ecce super.
- 16. Ageus. Veniet desideratus.
- 17. Malachias. A solis ortu usque ad.
- 18. Caiaphas. Expedit vobis.
- 19. Centurio. Vere Filius.
[106] See plan, [Plate VIII.]
[107] The western doorways of Salisbury Cathedral are emphatically mere “holes in the wall,” and very characteristic, too.
[108] I add Dr. Neale’s notes of two churches here which I did not discover.
“San Juan de la Puerta Nueva. Principally of Flamboyant date, has a square east end. The whole breadth of the church is here under one vault, the span somewhere about sixty feet. The north porch, separated by a parclose from the chapel of the Cross, has an excellent Transitional door. The western façade has a middle-pointed window of five lights.