[175] Juan de Borgoña contracted on March 23, 1508, to paint five pictures which were lacking in this Retablo, receiving 15,000 maravedis for each, and binding himself to finish them by All Saints’ Day of the same year.
[177] See the illustration of San Esteban, Segovia.
[178] Teatro Eccl. ii. 230.
[179] Teatro Eccl. ii. 229.
[180] Teatro Eccl. ii. 230.
[181] “In 1465 the sepulchre of the martyrs was made by donations from the Catholic kings, prelates,” &c. D. Andres H. Gallejo, ‘Memoria sobre la Basilica de San Vicente,’ p. 13. This date can only refer to the canopy.
[182] The following inscriptions on churches in Avila are given by G. G. Dávila. On a stone in San Nicolas, “In honorem B. Nicolai dedicavit hanc ecclesiam Jacobus Abulensis Episcopus, &c. &c., vi. Kal. Novembris, era MCC.XXXVI.” On a stone in San Bartolomeo, “In honorem S. Bartholomei Apost. dedicavit hanc ecclesiam Petrus Episcopus, &c. &c., vii. idus Decembris, MCCXLVIII.” The same bishop consecrated San Domingo in 1240.
[183] Cean Bermudez, Arq. de España, vol. i. p. 113. This convent is said to have been founded by the Catholic monarchs entirely with the confiscated goods of Jews.
[184] Cean Bermudez, Dicc., &c., de los Bellas Artes en España, vol. ii. p. 125.