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DURER AT ANTWERP.
IO9
VII.]
Heerewaarden, where the two towers stand. We spent the night there
and this day I spent 7 st. On Tuesday we went on early up the Maas 20 Nov.
to Bommel; a great storm of wind came on there, so we hired cart-horses
and rode without saddles to Herzogenbosch. I paid 1 fl. for the journey
in the boat and on horse.
Bosch is a fine town and has a most beautiful church. It is very
strongly fortified. I spent 10 st. there, although Master Arnold paid
for the meal for me. The goldsmiths came to see me and they did -me
much honour. After that we went off early on Ladyday and passed 21 Nov.
thro’ the very large and beautiful village of Oosterwyck; we breakfasted
however at Tilborg and I spent 4 white pf. We came next to Baarle,
stopped the night, and I spent 5 st. there, but my companions quarrelled
with the host so we went on in the night to Hoogstraten. We stopped 22 Nov.
there 2 hrs. and then went by St Leonhardskirchen to Harscht; we
breakfasted there and I spent 4 st.
We went on thence to Antwerp and I paid the driver 15 st.; that was
on Thursday after our Lady’s Presentation in the Temple1. I gave an
engraved Passion to Johann, Jobst’s brother-in-law’s servant, and I made
Niklas Sopalis’ portrait.
Dilrer at Antwerp (22 Nov.—3 Dec. 1520).
On the Thursday after the day of our Lady’s Presentation (Assump-
tion) 1520, I came again into Jobst Plankfelt’s house and have dined
with him thus often j j jj, my wife thus often j j. I have changed 1 fl.
for expenses, further 1 crown. The seven weeks that I have been away
my wife and maid have spent 7 crowns and bought other things besides
to the value of 4 fl. I spent 4 st. in company. Six times have I dined
with Tomasin.
On St Martin’s day in our Lady’s Church at Antwerp some one cut
off my wife’s purse in which were 2 fl. The purse, besides what was in
it, was worth another florin, and some keys were in it too. On St 24 Nov.
Catharine’s eve I paid my host 10 gold crowns for my reckoning. Thus
often have I dined with the Portuguese j j. Rodrigo gave me 6 Indian
nuts, so I gave his boy 2 st. for trinkgeld. I paid 19 st. for parchment.
2 crowns have I changed for expenses.
I have received 8 fl. in all for 2 prints of Adam and Eve, 1 Sea-
monster, 1 Jerome, 1 Knight, 1 Nemesis, r Eustace, 1 whole sheet, further
17 etched pieces, 8 quarter-sheets, 19 woodcuts, 7 of the bad woodcuts,
2 books, and 10 small woodcut Passions. I gave the 3 Large Books for
an ounce of Schamloth. I have changed a Philips fl. for expenses, also
my wife changed 1 fl. for expenses.
At Zierikzee in Zeeland a whale has been stranded by a high tide
and a gale of wind. It is much more than 100 fathoms long and no
man living in Zeeland has seen one even a third as long as this is. The
fish cannot get off the land; the people would gladly see it gone, as
they fear the great stink, for it is so large that they say it could not be
cut in pieces and the blubber boiled down in half a year.
1 This is a mistake; Diirer should have written Assumption instead of
Presentation.
IO9
VII.]
Heerewaarden, where the two towers stand. We spent the night there
and this day I spent 7 st. On Tuesday we went on early up the Maas 20 Nov.
to Bommel; a great storm of wind came on there, so we hired cart-horses
and rode without saddles to Herzogenbosch. I paid 1 fl. for the journey
in the boat and on horse.
Bosch is a fine town and has a most beautiful church. It is very
strongly fortified. I spent 10 st. there, although Master Arnold paid
for the meal for me. The goldsmiths came to see me and they did -me
much honour. After that we went off early on Ladyday and passed 21 Nov.
thro’ the very large and beautiful village of Oosterwyck; we breakfasted
however at Tilborg and I spent 4 white pf. We came next to Baarle,
stopped the night, and I spent 5 st. there, but my companions quarrelled
with the host so we went on in the night to Hoogstraten. We stopped 22 Nov.
there 2 hrs. and then went by St Leonhardskirchen to Harscht; we
breakfasted there and I spent 4 st.
We went on thence to Antwerp and I paid the driver 15 st.; that was
on Thursday after our Lady’s Presentation in the Temple1. I gave an
engraved Passion to Johann, Jobst’s brother-in-law’s servant, and I made
Niklas Sopalis’ portrait.
Dilrer at Antwerp (22 Nov.—3 Dec. 1520).
On the Thursday after the day of our Lady’s Presentation (Assump-
tion) 1520, I came again into Jobst Plankfelt’s house and have dined
with him thus often j j jj, my wife thus often j j. I have changed 1 fl.
for expenses, further 1 crown. The seven weeks that I have been away
my wife and maid have spent 7 crowns and bought other things besides
to the value of 4 fl. I spent 4 st. in company. Six times have I dined
with Tomasin.
On St Martin’s day in our Lady’s Church at Antwerp some one cut
off my wife’s purse in which were 2 fl. The purse, besides what was in
it, was worth another florin, and some keys were in it too. On St 24 Nov.
Catharine’s eve I paid my host 10 gold crowns for my reckoning. Thus
often have I dined with the Portuguese j j. Rodrigo gave me 6 Indian
nuts, so I gave his boy 2 st. for trinkgeld. I paid 19 st. for parchment.
2 crowns have I changed for expenses.
I have received 8 fl. in all for 2 prints of Adam and Eve, 1 Sea-
monster, 1 Jerome, 1 Knight, 1 Nemesis, r Eustace, 1 whole sheet, further
17 etched pieces, 8 quarter-sheets, 19 woodcuts, 7 of the bad woodcuts,
2 books, and 10 small woodcut Passions. I gave the 3 Large Books for
an ounce of Schamloth. I have changed a Philips fl. for expenses, also
my wife changed 1 fl. for expenses.
At Zierikzee in Zeeland a whale has been stranded by a high tide
and a gale of wind. It is much more than 100 fathoms long and no
man living in Zeeland has seen one even a third as long as this is. The
fish cannot get off the land; the people would gladly see it gone, as
they fear the great stink, for it is so large that they say it could not be
cut in pieces and the blubber boiled down in half a year.
1 This is a mistake; Diirer should have written Assumption instead of
Presentation.