These tendencies or characteristics will be found in nearly all the masterpieces of Spanish embroidery that have been preserved until to-day, of which perhaps the most remarkable specimens are the _manga_ or case of the great processional cross presented by Cardinal Cisneros to Toledo cathedral, and the "_Tanto Monta_" embroidered tapestry belonging to the same temple. The _manga grande_, known as that of the Corpus (Plate xiii.), is in the Gothic style, with reminiscences of German art, and consists of the following four scenes arranged in panels thirty-seven inches high, and hung successively about the handle of the cross:-- (1) The Ascension of the Virgin Mary, who is supported by six angels. (2) The Adoration of the Magi. (3) San Ildefonso in the act of cutting off a piece of the veil of Santa Leocadia, patron of Toledo. (4) The Martyrdom of San Eugenio, another patron of the city of Toledo. The ground of this elaborate "sleeve" is a fabric of rich silk, on which the embroidery is worked in gold and silver thread and coloured silks, principally blue and red, combined in delicate, harmonious tones. The figures are outlined with fine gold cord, which forms a kind of frame or fencing to confine the stretches of smooth silk. The careful copying of architectural detail is stated by Serrano Fatigati to be strongly characteristic of Spanish industrial art in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and even sixteenth centuries. The same writer considers that this "sleeve" was executed towards the year 1514, when embroiderers of great renown, such as Alonso Hernández, Juan de Talavera, Martin Ruiz, Hernando de la Rica, Pedro de Burgos, and Marcos de Covarrubias were engaged on similar work in the venerable city of the Tagus. Two out of the four panels, says Serrano Fatigati, may possibly be from the hand of Covarrubias, who was a famous craftsman of his time, and held the post of master-embroiderer in Toledo cathedral. In any case, the four panels are evidently not all by the same artist, nor do they appear to have been executed at precisely the same period. [Illustration: XV EMBROIDERED ALTAR-FRONT, WITH THE ARMS OF CARDINAL MENDOZA (_15th Century. Toledo Cathedral_)] The gorgeous embroidered tapestry which also belongs to this cathedral (where it serves as a hanging or _colgadura_ for the altar on the day of Corpus Christi), and which is known as the "Tanto Monta" _tapiz_, is stated by some authorities to have been the _dosel_ or bed canopy of Ferdinand and Isabella, and to have been purchased, in the year 1517, for 900,000 _maravedis_ by Alonso Fernández de Tendilla, steward of those sovereigns. Riaño gives the following account of the same object:--