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The art of the Saracens in Egypt (1886)

Lane-Poole, Stanley, 1854-1931 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 158

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FIG. 39.—ARABESQUE CASEL OF LAGINs PULPIT, ONCE IN THE .MOSQUE OF IBN-TULUN. (South Kensington Museum.) and the other the inscription ^jjjJI^ LJjJI j>\—a. j^aX^S .iU^JI^ft.*^ The victorious king, sword-blade of the State and ChurchLagin. When the Museum acquired the magnificent collectionof M.… … FIG. 40.—PANEL OF LAGINS PULPIT, BEARING HIS NAME AND TITLES. work of a modern and ill-proportioned door as portions of thesame pulpit, and some of these are engraved in figs. 37 and 38. The panels of Lagins pulpit show the Cairene carving in itsboldest and finest style. Later arabesques may be…

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