Identifier: ramblesinsunnysp00ober (find matches)
Title: Rambles in sunny Spain
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Ober, Frederick A(lbion), 1849- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ptures in wood, and they have a greater interest forbeing faithful representations of incidents in the campaigns of Isa-bella and Ferdinand, and especially of the siege and capture of theAlhambra, having been carved in 1495. The different chapels are worth pages of description, each chapelhaving as its centre of attraction some bishop, or king, or saint, famousin Spains history from three hundred to six hundred years ago. Butthat around which a most peculiar interest attaches is the CapillaMozarabe, wherein the Mozarabic ritual is performed daily, — the onlyplace in Spain where this occurs. The first printed copy of theMozarabic ritual, dated 1502, is yet shown to visitors, and remindsone of the attempt by Spain, in the time of Ximenes, to assert itsindependence of Rome. . Through the grated door you may see thepainting on the wall of the battle of Oran, in 1514, in which thegreat Cardinal Ximenes was directly engaged. The treasures of the cathedral exceed those of perhaps any other
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THE ALCAZAR, TOLEDO. TOLEDO, ON THE GOLD EX TAGUS. 135 in Spain; we have not space here to enumerate them. It is saidthat the French, in 1810, took away two thousand three hundredpounds of silver; but there is a great deal left in plate and shrinesand relics. The gold cross crowning a custodia of silver weighingten thousand nine hundred ounces is said to have been made fromthe first gold brought by Columbus from the New World. Herealso is said to be kept the cross of Cardinal Mendoza, which waselevated above the Torre de la Vela at the capture of the Alhambra,and the sword of Alonzo VI., the conqueror of Toledo. Bannersare here from the battlefields of Las Navas and Lepanto, and therich mantle of the Virgin, embroidered with pearls and preciousstones. But who can hope adequately to describe Toledo and its treas-ures in a single short chapter? Not alone are there treasures ingold and silver, in architecture, painting, and sculpture (chiefly sculp-tures), but in literature ; for in the

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