[142] The cost of these works was 86,739 lire 35 c.
[143] Between the years 1864–1869 alone, no less a sum than 40,000 lire from this fund was expended on restoration.
[144] _Il Pavimento del Duomo di Siena._ The learned father’s list is not absolutely to be depended upon, as, through inadvertence, he has made several mistakes in names, thereby causing confusion.
[145] _Miscellanea Storica Senese._ Gennaio-Febbraio, 1898.
[146] In the course of this chapter and in my Scheme, I have added four more names. They are scarcely entitled to rank among the Duomo Pavement masters, but, as they are necessary to the full evolution of its history, I have decided to admit them into the list.
[149] 18 Luglio, 1416. Archivio delle Riformagione di Siena. Deliberazioni del Concistoro, ad annum.
[150] In 1407, not in 1400, as Padre della Valle states. Archivio dell’ Opera del Duomo d’Orvieto. Libro di Riformanze ad annum.
[151] Rogiti di Ser Giovanni di Daniello. 27 Maggio, 1463.
[152] _Mil. Doc._, vol. i., p. 126. The compiler warns us that the original documents are lost, and that his transcription is from a faulty copy of the seventeenth century, preserved in the Biblioteca Pubblica of Siena.
[153] The making of this design was once attributed to Duccio. Archivio dell’ Opera del Duomo di Siena. Libro dei Documenti Artistici, No. 40.
[154] Archivio delle Riformagioni di Siena. Deliber: del Gran Consiglio, T. 212.
[156] Romagnuoli MS. (Biblioteca Communale di Siena), vol. iv., p. 444.
[157] Della Valle, _Lettere Senesi_, vol. ii. 197, 1444. In the Archivio di Stato of Siena there is a contract to purchase a piece of land by the said Antonia, in which she is described as “Antonia ... vedova olim magistri dmci Bartali de Asciano pictoris districtus Senensis. Archivio di Stato. Pergam. d. convento di S. Maria degli Angeli. Nr. 88. 18 Feb., 1446. Index X. See also H. J. Wagner, _Domenico di Bartolo Ghezzi_, etc.
[158] Archivio dello Spedale di Sta. Maria della Scala di Siena. Libro di conti correnti, segnato a carte 99.
[159] This work was eventually completed by his brothers Antonio and Giovanni. Cf. _Nuovi Documenti_, p. 163.
[160] 1441, dal Gennaio al Ottobre. Archivio del Duomo d’ Orvieto. Libro di Riformanze di detto anno. He is called there “PETRUS DE SENIS,” and “PETRUS HERMINELLE.”