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Date
1553/05/09
Type of document
Location
Library / Archive call number
361/80
MS / Print
Scribe / Copyist / Notary
Musical instruments mentioned
Music books mentioned
Partial or complete transcription / Summary

Bartolome Ferrer is canon of the Cathedral. 

Inventory

In "aquelles cases Del reuerent Capitol de la seu de Barcelona les quals a dit deffunct per son torn li pertanyen":

  • "en lo studi de dita casa" there were:
  1. Ink, inkwells and papers.
  2. Two retable/ imatge: "Item vn retaule ab nostre senyor en la creu ab lo bon lladre y lo mal lladre ab vna cortina deuant de vell",...
  3. Some religious books: "breviari roma de tres llissons", "breviari de cambra roma de nou llissons", "Item vna biblia de stampa de venecia".
  4. A clavichord: "Item vn manicort ab son pany y clau be gornit".
  • "en lo oratori o capella prop del dit studi" there were some "teles" (canvas), most of them about religious themes, brass candelobra and a kind of lectern: "Item vnes xops de alber fetas ab migams per tenir llibres que seruex per lo altar ab alguns libres y scriptures".
  • "En una cambra a la qual se... per lo prop dit aparament ab vna scala lleuadissa":
  1. Four retables/ paintings about religious themes: "Item vn quadro pintat en lo qual hi ha vn sant ab lo turment de sancta eulalia", "Item vn retaulet petit de post pintat ab la imatge de sant steua",...
  2. 24 books of unknown authors: "Item vintiquatra pessas de llibres de stampa de diuersos autors" and, inside a box, 20 other ones: "Primo vynt libres de stampa de diuerses facultats".
  3. A string instrument without strings neither bridge: "Item vna viola sens cordes ni pontes". 
  4. Another valuable furniture: a table of "alber", "a facistol de fust per tenir llibres penjat a la paret llarch", and crucifixs.

In the houses in carrer de la palla where he lived while alive:

  • "en la entrada" there is a retable of Sant Miquel: "item en la paret vn retaule de post sobre la portalada de la botiga ab la imatge de sant miquel y vna llantia penjada deuant".
  • "En vna raffala que trau porta al cap de la scala" there is a retable with the image of "sanct christofol".
  • "En vna cambra que trau porta al cap de la scala" there are two retables about religious thematic.
  • In the room where he died there were books and boxes with documents or other books: "Item vn altra caxa de alber ab son pany dins la qual atrobam vn missal gran roma bo", "Item vna sort de llibres de stampa y ploma", "Item vn breviari dolent", and bookcases (no mention of books).
  • "En la cambra o studi qui trau finestra al cell sobre la scala" there were:
  1. Retables/ tapestry/ "telas" (canvas): "Item vn retaule de nostra dona ab son fill abrassat ab lo creu de tela", "Item dues telas ab les armes del Emperador",...
  2. Three string instruments: "Item dos rabequets y vna violera de arc". 
  3. Clothes related with the profession: "cassoch", "almusses". 

In the houses which have an "hort de arbres" "prop la murall del ortal de sant antoni":

  • In the "entrada" there were "dos draps de tela pintats".
  • "En la sala" there were a "tela pintada ab sant jaume" and a "crucififi gran ab son peu de fusta y lo bon lladre y ma ladre de terra la qual se cuira la dita isabel joana" and a box of "scriptures".
  • "En altra cambra o recambra que trau porta al lo propdit" there is "Item vn retaule de guix (chalk?) ab la imatge de nostra dona".
  • "En altra cambra daffront la porta de la cambra" there were:
  1. Books of religious thematic, three of them of Nicholas of Lyra: "Item vna biblia stampat", "Item vn missal de ploma del bispat de barcinona", "Item altre nicholau de llira super libro regio",...
  2. Literature: "Item las obras de dante Italianes de ploma", "Item vn libre de joan bocacio".
  3. Tapestry with some arms.
  • "En vn studi qui trau porta y finestra al hort" there was a book of Nicholas of Lyra: "Item vn libre de nicolau de llira Intitulat psalms".
  • "En lo restudi" there was "Item vna trompa de tirar".

Auction

It begun at 15 of May of 1553. 

"Curritores": Pere Serra and Antoni Seguer. The receptor of the money is the reverend Guillermus Petrus Comes, canone of Barcelona.

  • Are sold three string instruments (guitar and two violas): "Item a mi aparrat vna viola" (sold for 5 sous), "Item altra viola a micer torres" (for 7 sous and 6 diners) and "Item vna guitarra a mossen guasc" (for 3 sous).

At the house "del deffunct al carrer de la palla" were sold:

  • Various tapestry/ "telas" and images, most of them bout religious thematic, for a low price: a tapestry with flowers a joan vallbona (for 2 sous and 4 diners), "tela pintada ab la nativitat" to Joan segui (for 5 sous),...
  • Three instruments:
  1. A clavichord: "Item al señor abat quintana vn manacort" (sold for 1 lliura and 12 sous). 
  2. A viola: "Item vna viola vella sens cordes a mestre gaspar" (for 8 sous).
  3. A lute: "Item a Joanot Sauant vn lleut sense cordes" (for 10 sous).