Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado . Fran-cesco Nimira, with the date 1490 :— ETERNI SVM REGIS LAVDI • ET • YIRGIXIS ALME PRESVLE MALYMBRA ZANTANO PRESIDE CALBO QVESTORE • IMPENSA • FRANCISCI • STRVCTA • NIMIRE M • CCCCLXXXX. Of subsequent alterations to the church I findonly slight accounts. In 1717a report of the bishopVincenzo states that the building needed repair, andthat the campanile also required something done atthe summit; and as a later report of 1757 statesthat the cathedral needs no repaii but only somedecoration, and that the ca
Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado . Fran-cesco Nimira, with the date 1490 :— ETERNI SVM REGIS LAVDI • ET • YIRGIXIS ALME PRESVLE MALYMBRA ZANTANO PRESIDE CALBO QVESTORE • IMPENSA • FRANCISCI • STRVCTA • NIMIRE M • CCCCLXXXX. Of subsequent alterations to the church I findonly slight accounts. In 1717a report of the bishopVincenzo states that the building needed repair, andthat the campanile also required something done atthe summit; and as a later report of 1757 statesthat the cathedral needs no repaii but only somedecoration, and that the campanile pro se nihil2)0scit, all that was thought necessary had apparentlybeen done in the mterval\ ^ These repairs probably included the stucco ceilings of thejnterior, as we read that Bp. Giov. Ill Calebotta (i746-1756) ad Ch. XXVIII.] Arbe: the Diiomo. 221 In the treasury of the duomo are several veryinteresting pieces of silversmiths work and enamel. The most important is the casket containing thefamous relic of the head of St. Christopher, which in /\RBE in I8J4. Fig. 98. legend at all events did such good service to theArbesani in days of old (Fig. 98). It is a small boxof silver parcel-gilt, nine and a half inches long,seven inches high exclusive and ten and a quarterinclusive of the roof-shaped lid, and it has a figure restauranda Sarta tecta aedis Cathedralis non exiguos sumptusfecit. Farlati, v. p. 282. 22 2 Arbe: the Diioino. [Ch. xxviii. subject on each of the four sides of the box, and alsothe four sloping sides of the roof Those on thebox are as follows :— 1. The first scene of the martyrdom of the saint;he is bound to the stake and an archer is shootingat him, but the hand of God reaching down fromabove diverts the arrows, one of which is broken asit falls to the ground, and the other has put out theeye of the king who sits enthroned and crowned towatch the execution. 2. The beheading of the saint by soldiers inRoman costume. 3. Three male saint
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