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durer’s literary remains.
[chap.
maidens led by a girdle; she was especially beautiful. Behind her
came St George with his squire, a very goodly knight in armour. In
this host also rode boys and maidens most finely and splendidly
dressed in the costumes of many lands, representing various Saints.
From beginning to end the Procession lasted more than two hours
before it was gone past our house. And so many things were there
that I could never write them all in a book, so I let it well alone.
I have been into Fugger’s house1 at Antwerp. He has newly built
it in very costly fashion, with a noteworthy tower, broad and high, and
with a beautiful garden. I saw also his fine horses. Tomasin gave my
wife 14 ells of good thick arras for a mantle and 3 J ells of half-satin to
line it. I drew a design for a lady’s forehead-band for the Goldsmith.
The Factor of Portugal sent me Portuguese and French wine to the inn.
Signor Rodrigo Fernandez of Portugal has given me a small cask full of
all sorts of sweetmeats, amongst them a box of sugar-candy, besides two
large dishes of barley-sugar, Marzipan, and many other kinds of sugar-
work, some sugar-canes also as they grow. I gave his servant in return
1 fl. for trinkgeld. I have again changed for my expenses 1 light florin
for 12 st.
The pillars in the parish Church in the Convent of St Michael at
Antwerp are all made out of single blocks of beautiful black touch-stone.
Herr Jigidius, King Karl’s Porter, has taken for me from Antwerp the
St Jerome in the Cell, the Melancholy, the three new Marys (b. 36, 37,
and 38), the Anthony, and the Veronica as a present for Master Konrad
Meyt2 the good sculptor, whose like I have not seen. He is in the
service of Lady Margaret, the Emperor Maximilian’s daughter. Also I
gave Master FEgidius a Eustace and a Nemesis.
I owe my host 7 fl. 20 st. 1 Heller—that was on Sunday before
Bartholomew’s (19 Aug.). For sitting-room and bedroom and bedding
I am to pay him 11 fl. a month. I came to a new agreement with my
host on the 20th day of August—it was on Monday before Bartholo-
mew’s. I am to eat with him and to pay 2 st. for the meal and extra
for what is drunk. My wife however and the maid can cook and eat up
here.
I gave the Factor of Portugal a small carved Child, also an Adam
and Eve, the Jerome in the Cell, the Edercules, the Eustace, the Melancholy,
the Nemesis; then of the half-sheets—three new Marys, the Veronica,
the Anthony, the Nativity, and the Cross-, also the best of the quarter-
sheets, eight in number; then the three Books—Our Lady's Lije, the
Apocalypse, and the Great Passion; and lastly the Little Passion, and
the Passion engraved on copper—altogether that is 5 fl. worth. I gave
the same quantity to Signor Rodrigo, the other Portuguese. Rodrigo
has given my wife a small green parrot.
1 This house still stands, though very much altered. It is in the Steenhouwers-
rest, w. 4, No. 794.
2 He was a Swiss by birth. He sculptured the figures for the monument of
Margaret in the church at Brou.
durer’s literary remains.
[chap.
maidens led by a girdle; she was especially beautiful. Behind her
came St George with his squire, a very goodly knight in armour. In
this host also rode boys and maidens most finely and splendidly
dressed in the costumes of many lands, representing various Saints.
From beginning to end the Procession lasted more than two hours
before it was gone past our house. And so many things were there
that I could never write them all in a book, so I let it well alone.
I have been into Fugger’s house1 at Antwerp. He has newly built
it in very costly fashion, with a noteworthy tower, broad and high, and
with a beautiful garden. I saw also his fine horses. Tomasin gave my
wife 14 ells of good thick arras for a mantle and 3 J ells of half-satin to
line it. I drew a design for a lady’s forehead-band for the Goldsmith.
The Factor of Portugal sent me Portuguese and French wine to the inn.
Signor Rodrigo Fernandez of Portugal has given me a small cask full of
all sorts of sweetmeats, amongst them a box of sugar-candy, besides two
large dishes of barley-sugar, Marzipan, and many other kinds of sugar-
work, some sugar-canes also as they grow. I gave his servant in return
1 fl. for trinkgeld. I have again changed for my expenses 1 light florin
for 12 st.
The pillars in the parish Church in the Convent of St Michael at
Antwerp are all made out of single blocks of beautiful black touch-stone.
Herr Jigidius, King Karl’s Porter, has taken for me from Antwerp the
St Jerome in the Cell, the Melancholy, the three new Marys (b. 36, 37,
and 38), the Anthony, and the Veronica as a present for Master Konrad
Meyt2 the good sculptor, whose like I have not seen. He is in the
service of Lady Margaret, the Emperor Maximilian’s daughter. Also I
gave Master FEgidius a Eustace and a Nemesis.
I owe my host 7 fl. 20 st. 1 Heller—that was on Sunday before
Bartholomew’s (19 Aug.). For sitting-room and bedroom and bedding
I am to pay him 11 fl. a month. I came to a new agreement with my
host on the 20th day of August—it was on Monday before Bartholo-
mew’s. I am to eat with him and to pay 2 st. for the meal and extra
for what is drunk. My wife however and the maid can cook and eat up
here.
I gave the Factor of Portugal a small carved Child, also an Adam
and Eve, the Jerome in the Cell, the Edercules, the Eustace, the Melancholy,
the Nemesis; then of the half-sheets—three new Marys, the Veronica,
the Anthony, the Nativity, and the Cross-, also the best of the quarter-
sheets, eight in number; then the three Books—Our Lady's Lije, the
Apocalypse, and the Great Passion; and lastly the Little Passion, and
the Passion engraved on copper—altogether that is 5 fl. worth. I gave
the same quantity to Signor Rodrigo, the other Portuguese. Rodrigo
has given my wife a small green parrot.
1 This house still stands, though very much altered. It is in the Steenhouwers-
rest, w. 4, No. 794.
2 He was a Swiss by birth. He sculptured the figures for the monument of
Margaret in the church at Brou.