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Given at our and the Holy Empire's town Koeln on the fourth day of the month November , etc. Besides, he got back to Nuremberg without falling in with highwaymen, though the following little letter shows us that in this he was fortunate. Dear Master Wolf Stromer, My most gracious lord of Salzburg has sent me a letter by the hand of his glass-painter.
"It is to-day a high-day of light and the Sun of Justice is visiting His Mother," he went on, as he walked to where the pillared thicket of the choir ended at the south transept, to look at the window known as Notre Dame de la belle Verrière, the figure, in blue, relieved against a mingled background of dead-leaf olive, brown, iris violet, plum-green; She gazed out with her sad and pensive pout a pout very cleverly restored by a modern glass-painter; and Durtal remembered that people had come to pray to Her, as he now went to pray to the Virgin of the Pillar and Notre Dame de Sous Terre.
To cut the matter short, there was a similar note, as I may call it, in each of the other lights; and that made it plain to me that the glass-painter had had very strict orders from Abbot Thomas about the inscription and had taken pains to get it correct. 'Well, after that discovery you may imagine how minutely I went over the whole surface of the glass in search of further light.
The glorious west window, composed of eighty compartments, embellished with figures of kings, patriarchs, and bishops, together with the insignia of the Garter and the arms of the prelates the wreck gathered from all the other windows and streaming with the radiance of the setting sun upon the broad nave and graceful pillars of the aisles this superb window, an admirable specimen of the architecture of the age in which it was designed, had well-nigh shared the fate of the others, and was only preserved from desecration by the circumstance of the death of the glass-painter.
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