He was an organist and a "verguer", a civil servant that wore a badge (a "verga", a kind of stick or cane) and accompanied and obey the commands of municipal magistrates. He lived "en vn apartamento de les cases de la Ciutat de Barcelona".
There he had:
- An organ: "Ite[m] vn organero petit ab sos manxas ales flautas de stany y de plom de poca valor".
- Parts of organ and tools that he used to construct them: "Ite[m] un barrilot vell en que mitia roba de stany vell pormes o meny de flautas de orgue", "Ite[m] una caxota de quatre pams de llarch y mitg de ample poc mens o menys plens de flautas de llauto lo qual y lo que dins es diue[n] es del monestir de Jesus", "unas stisores de ferro para tallar lo stany de las flautas".
- Probably, a harpsichord tuning hammer: "Ite[m] vna clau de fus ta petita de pam i mijx poc mes o ma[n]co deurada ab obra de unt roseta". There was also something that could refer to a clavichord or harpsichord: "Ite[m] un clauillat ab sos guarda polsos pintat de vert y llehonat".
- Some retables/ tapestries, some of them about religious thematic: "Ite[m] un retaule de tela ab sos guarda polsos pintats de blau y son de fusta en la qual sta pintada la salutacio de [nos]tra senora", "Ite[m] vn tela guarnida de fusta ab sos guarda polsos pintat de blanc ab vnes steles de or en la tela staua pintat el crucifix i ab sant francesc y n[os]tra senora y altros personatges".
Probably because of his profession of "verguer", he has a lot of luxury objects. He had foreign clothes like "matalalasos de tela blanca plens de llana sardescha" (of the isle of Sardinia) and clothes from Courtrai "Ite[m]m vna capa de co[n]tray guarnida a les vores de frania de seda negra bona" and a lot of valuable clothes like velvet, silks, and embroidery ones. Among this ones there was the clothes for his office of verdugado: "Ite[m] vn verdugado de drap blau molt dole[n]t y squi[n]sat", "Ite[m] vn capiro de scarleti vell dels que vsen los verguers dels consellers"... He has other valuable objects like carpets, and painted chests: "Ite[m] vn mix cofre de fusta dalber bossellat abson pany y clau pintat a quartets de vert y llehonat ab vns scuts en los quals ha vns cervols dins ".
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