It is of white linen, quilted and padded in wool so as to throw the
design into relief. The scenes represented, taken from the Story of
Tristan, with inscriptions in the Sicilian dialect, are as
follows:--(1) COMU: LU AMOROLDU FA BANDIRI: LU OSTI: IN CORNUUALGIA
(How the Morold made the host to go to Cornwall); (2) COMU: LU RRE:
LANGUIS: CUMANDA: CHI UAIA: LO OSTI. CORNUAGLIA (How King Languis
ordered that the host should go to Cornwall); (3) COMU: LU RRE:
LANGUIS: MANDA: PER LU TRABUTU IN CORNUALIA (How King Languis sent to
Cornwall for the tribute); (4) COMU: (LI M) ISSAGIERI: SO UINNTI: AL
RRE: MARCU: PER LU TRIBUTU DI SECTI ANNI (How the ambassadors are come
to King Mark for the tribute of seven years); (5) COMU: LU AMOROLDU
UAI: IN CORNUUALGIA (How the Morold comes to Cornwall); (6) COMU: LU
AMOROLDU: FA SULDARI: LA GENTI (How the Morold made the people pay);
(7) COMU: T(RISTAINU): DAI: LU GUANTU ALLU AMOROLDU DELA BACTAGLIA
(How Tristan gives the glove of battle to the Morold); (8) COMU: LU
AMOROLDU: E UINUTU: IN CORNUUALGIA: CUM XXXX GALEI: (How the Morold is
come to Cornwall with forty galleys); (9) COMU TRISTAINU BUCTA: LA
UARCA: ARRETU: INTU: ALLU MARU (How Tristan struck his boat behind him
into the sea); (10) COMU: TRISTAINU: ASPECTA: LU AMOROLDU: ALLA ISOLA
DI LU MARU: SANSA UINTURA (How Tristan awaits the Morold on the isle
Sanza Ventura in the sea); (11) COMU: TRISTAINU FERIU LU AMOROLLDU IN
TESTA (How Tristan wounded the Morold in the head); (12) COMU: LU INNA
(?) DELU AMOROLDU: ASPECTTAUA LU PATRUNU (How the Morold's page (?)
awaited his master); (13) COMU LU AMORODU FERIU: TRISTAINU A
TRADIMANTU (How the Morold wounded Tristan by treachery); (14) ...
SITA: IN AIRLANDIA ( ... in Ireland).]
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