ononenis qui superius scribuntur. Muentz, p.
130.

[386] Dedi Joanni pictori famulo m. Melotii pro pictura trium tabularum
ubi descripta sunt librorum nomina carlenos XVIII die X Octobris 1477.
_Ibid._, p. 131.

[387] Item pro XII capsis latis in bibliothecam secretam. Muentz et Fabre,
p. 158.

[388] Magister Joanninus de Florentia et m. Marcus ejus frater faber
lignarius habuere ducatos XXV pro parte solucionis banchorum quae fiunt in
bibliotheca addita nunc a S^mo. d. nostro, die XVIII Julii 1480. Muentz, p.
134.

[389] Muentz, pp. 124-126.

[390] Magister Joannes fabricator catenarum habuit a me die XIIII aprilis
1477 ducatos decem, ad summam centum et quinque ducatorum quos ei debebam
pro tribus miliaribus et libris octingentis ferri fabrefacti ad usum
bibliothecae, videlicet pro quadraginta octo virgis ferreis ad quas in
banchis libri connectuntur [etc.]. Muentz, p. 128.

[391] _Ibid._, p. 127.

[392] _Ibid._, p. 135.

[393] MSS. Vat. 3947.

[394] MSS. Vat. 7135.

[395] _La Vaticane_, etc., p. 475.

[396] MS. Vat. 3946.

[397] MS. Vat. 3948.

[398] For an account of what Sixtus accomplished at Santo Spirito see
Pastor, _History of the Popes_, Eng. Tran. IV. 460-462.

[399] Brockhaus, _Janitschek's Repertorium fuer Kunstwissenschaften_, Band
VII. (1884); Schmarsow, _Melozzo da Forli_ (1886), pp. 202-207.

[400] I have taken 1 palm = metre 0.223; and 1 metre = 39.37 in.

[401] My calculation works out as follows. Each of 10 seats was 38 palms
long: total length, 380 palms. As these 10 seats cost 130 ducats, each
palm cost 130/380 ducats = 1/3 a ducat nearly.

As the total paid was 300 ducats, this first payment, viz. 130 ducats,
left 170 ducats still due for the 15 remaining seats. As each palm cost a
third of a ducat, 170 ducats would buy 510 palms = 113.73 metres = 4477
inches (nearly) = 373 feet.

[402] Per lo tellaro del mappamondo b. 52. Muentz, p. 129. Habuere pictores
armorum quae sunt facta in duabus sphaeris solidis et pro pictura mappemundi
ducatos III, die XII decembris 1477. Muentz et Fabre, p. 151. This map had
probably been provided by Pius II. (1458-1464), who kept in his service
Girolamo Bellavista, a Venetian maker of maps. Muentz et Fabre, 126.

[403] Expendi pro cobopertura facta duobus sphaeris solidis quarum in
altera est ratio signorum, in altera cosmographia, ducatos IIII videlicet
cartenos XVI in octo pellibus montoninis, cartenos XXV in manifactura;
sunt nunc ornata