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The Alhambra, being a brief record of the Arabian conquest of the Peninsula (1907)

Calvert, Albert Frederick, 1872-1946 · London, John Lane; New York, John Lane company · leaf 139

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ah uphold hismajesty as a pattern to other kings [ 76 The Alhambra. The last half-dozen verses, printed supra, are inscribed onthe jambs of the doorway which gives entrance to the exquisitelittle chamber already described. The windows of the Miradorstill overlook the garden eulogised in the… … THE FAVOURITE S BALCONY. In the Hall of The Two Sisters formerly stood the famousArab vase (el jarro) [see pp. 77 and 95] which tradition says wasdiscovered in one of the subterranean chambers of the palace,<c full of gold. It is now placed in the Museum. The vase isof the fourteenth century,…

Alhambra (Granada, Spain) · Islamic architecture · Decoration and ornament, Arabic

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