APPENDIX. A SELECTION FROM THE EXTRACTS MADE BY DON TOMAS GONZALES FROM THE INVENTORY OF THE JEWELS, WARDROBE, AND FURNITURE OF THE EMPEROR CHARLES THE FIFTH, AT YUSTE, DRAWN UP AFTER HIS DEATH, BY FRAY JUAN DE REGLA, MARTIN DE GAZTELU, AND LUIS QUIXADA. A bag, of mulberry silk, containing three portraits of the empress, painted on vellum, and two pictures of the 'Last Judgment.' Bags, containing portraits of the duchess of Parma, on a small panel, and of the emperor when a boy; and a portrait of the king of France, with his genealogy. A box of black leather, lined with crimson velvet, containing four bezuar stones, variously set in gold, one of which the emperor ordered to be given to William Van Male, his gentleman of the chamber, being sick, as it was suspected, of the plague. Various quadrants, astrolabes, and other mathematical instruments. A sand-glass set in ebony, with its box. Twenty-seven pairs of spectacles. 'The bezuar, bezoar, or bezar, was a stone found in the kidneys of the cervicabra, a wild animal of Arabia, partaking of the nature of the deer and the goat, and somewhat larger than the latter. The stone was supposed to be formed of the poison of serpents which had bitten the producer, combined with the counteracting matter with which nature had furnished it. It was a charm against plague and poison. For marvellous properties, see Gaspar de Morales: Libro de las virtudes y propriedades maravillosas de piedras preciosas; sm. 8vo. Madrid: 1605; fol. 202-211. Thirty-nine pairs of gold and enamelled clasps (clavos), to be worn in the cap. A cameo medal (medalla de camafeo), with its gold mounting. A number of gold tooth-picks. BOOKS, Amongst which, amounting in all to about thirty-one volumes, and usually described as bound in crimson velvet with silver clasps and mountings, the following names occur :— El Caballero determinado,1 in French, with illuminated paintings. The same, in manuscript, in Castillian (romance), by Don Hernando de Acuña; likewise with illuminations. Boethius; De Consolatione; three copies; in French, Italian, and Castillian. The War of Germany, by the Comendador-Mayor of Alcantara (Don Luis de Avila).2 A large book of vellum; containing many drawings and illuminations. Several missals and books of hours, with illuminations. The Christian Doctrine, by Dr. Constantino.3 The Meditations of Fray Luis de Granada. The Christian Doctrine, by Fray Pedro de Soto. Cæsar's Commentaries, in Tuscan. Commentary on the psalm In te Domine speravi, in manu script, by Fray Tomas de Puertocarrero. Astronomicon Cæsaris de Pedro Apiano. Two portfolios, with some manuscript sheets of the histories written by Florian de Ocampo and others. Two books of Meditation. Titelman's Exposition of the Psalms. 2 vols. 2 Chap. iv. p. 86. 8 Chap. ix. p. 208. 'Chap. iv. p. 86. Commentarii paraphrastici in Psalmos, was printed at Antwerp, in 1552, by Steels, at the particular request of the emperor, conveyed by Van Male. See Van Male's Letters, by Reiffenberg: Ep. xxxii. p. 87. A book of Memorias, with its gold pen. Probably a notebook, but possibly the emperor's Memoirs.1 Maps of Italy, Flanders, Germany, and the Indies. A large portfolio of black velvet, containing papers, and sealed up for the princess-regent. The fowling-piece (arcabuz) used by his majesty, and various cross-bows (ballestas), quivers, (carcajos), and other trappings and furniture of the chase (arreos y muebles de caza). PLATE. PLATE OF THE CHAPEL. Approximate A variety of chalices, candlesticks, crucifixes, mon Cups, basins, jugs, bottles, pitchers, candlesticks; a warming pan with its handle (calentador con mango); a 'pizpote;' a basin in the shape of a tortoise, used by his majesty in washing his teeth (fuente a manera de galapago en que S. M. lavaba los dientes); a salt-box of Moorish workmanship (caja para sal labrada a la morisca), &c. PLATE OF THE PANTRY. 100 150 A gold and enamelled salt-cellar, with its cover; six square gilt trenchers, with the arms of his majesty ; eight saucers; chafing-dishes for keeping the dishes warm on the table; cups, spoons, knives, and forks . PLATE OF THE CELLAR. A piece of gold, to be put hot into water or wine, for the use of his majesty (weighing upwards of 5 ounces). 'Chap. iv. p. 70, chap ix. p. 224, and chap. xi. p. 293. 70 Liquor, in which hot metal was quenched, was held to possess valuable astringent properties. See Bacon's remarks on the subject, in his Historia Vita et Mortis, v. 7; Works, 10 vols. 8vo. London: 1803, vol. viii. p. 422. His New Advices in order to Health, v. ii. p. 224, contains the following memorandum: 'To use once during supper wine in which gold is quenched.' Approximate weight in marks. Jars, mugs, and bottles, of various shapes (jarros, tarros, frascos, cubiletes). Silver mouth-pieces (brocales con tornillos), to screw on to leather hunting-bottles; tubes (cañutos), with which his majesty drank when he had the gout; spoons, &c. PLATE OF THE LARDER. 400 Two large Thirty-six middle-sized Thirty-six smaller dishes, Two dishes for serving sucking pigs (lechones,) saucers, &c. 650 PLATE OF THE DISPENSARY. Cups, mugs, pans, pots, boxes, phials; box for carrying preserved lemon-peel or candied pumpkin (diacitron o calabazate,) &c. 65 PLATE OF THE WAX ROOM. Six wrought candlesticks 26 Weight, in marks, about 1561 or 12,488 ounces.1 PLATE AND JEWELS IN THE CARE OF THE KEEPER OF THE JEWELS. A reliquary full of reliques. A piece of the true cross. Another piece, set in a cross of gold. Several vessels for sprinkling perfumes (almarras) of silver. Two bracelets, and two rings of gold, and one of bone, all good for hemorrhoids (almorranas). 1 The mark of Cologne, or as it was called in Spain, of Burgos, contained eight ounces. J. Garcia Cavallero: Breve Cotejo y Valance, pp. 33, 36, 108. A blue stone, with two clasps (corchetes) of gold, good for gout. Rosaries, chains, and several pairs of spectacles. The great order of the golden fleece, with its collar, and several others of a smaller size. A small picture on panel of Our Lady, mounted with silver, which belonged to the empress. A box containing a crucifix of wood, the same which his majesty and the empress held in their hands when they died, and two scourges (disciplinas). A signet-ring of chalcedony, engraved with the imperial arms. Eighteen files to file his majesty's teeth. CRUCIFIXES, PAINTINGS, AND OTHER ARTICLES. A picture of the Trinity, on canvas, by Titian. A large picture on wood, with Jesus Christ bearing his cross, Our Lady, St. John, and St. Veronica, by master Michael,1 (in the monastery). A picture on wood, a crucifix, which stands upon the principal altar, with gilt base and top. A picture of the scourging of Christ, by Titian. A picture of Our Lady, on wood, by master Michael. A picture of Christ bearing his cross, by master Michael, and another of Our Lady, on stone, joined with it, by Titian. A picture of Our Lady, on wood, by Titian. A picture of Our Lady with Our Lord in her arms, on canvas, by Titian. Portraits of the emperor and the empress, on canvas, by Titian. A portrait of the emperor in armour, by Titian. A full-length portrait of the empress, by Titian. A portrait of the queen of England, on wood, by Thomas (doubtless a mistake for Antonio) More. A picture with four figures, portraits of children of the queen of Bohemia. 1 Chap. v. p. 110. |