[344] Roussillon belonged to the Kings of Aragon from A.D. 1178. Perpiñan was taken, after a vigorous resistance, by Louis XI. in 1474, restored to Spain, and finally taken by the French in A.D. 1642.
[345] An illustration of this organ is given in M. Viollet le Duc’s Dictionary of French Architecture.
[346] Viage Literario á las Iglesias de España, vol. xiv. p. 106.
[347] Viage Lit. á las Iglesias de España, vii. 179.
[348] See [Plate XIX.]
[349] Viage Lit. á las Iglesias de España, vii. 180.
[350] The subjects are as follows:—
- 1. The Marriage of the Blessed Virgin.
- 2. The Annunciation.
- 3. The Salutation.
- 4. The Nativity.
- 5. The Adoration of the Magi.
- 6. The Flight into Egypt.
- 7. The Presentation in the Temple.
- 8. The Dispute with the Doctors.
- 9. The Money-changers driven out of the Temple.
- 10. The Crucifixion.
- 11. The Entry into Jerusalem.
- 12. The Last Supper.
- 13. The Agony in the Garden.
- 14. The Betrayal.
- 15. Our Lord before Pilate.
- 16. The Scourging.
- 17. Our Lord bearing His Cross.
- 18. The Resurrection.
- 19. The Descent into Hell.
The subjects begin at the upper left-hand corner, and are continued from left to right, the subjects 1 to 9 being on the left, and 11 to 19 on the right of the Crucifixion.
[351] To those who know them I need hardly say that the remains of the Anglo-Saxon vestments found in S. Cuthbert’s tomb, and preserved at Durham, are perhaps the most exquisitely delicate works in existence—so delicate that a magnifying glass is necessary in order to understand at all the way in which the work has been done. This Florentine work, of a later age, quite makes up in art for what it lacks in minute delicacy of execution when compared with S. Cuthbert’s vestments.