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The art of the Saracens in Egypt (1886)

Lane-Poole, Stanley, 1854-1931 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 196

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to the weather, do not seemable to last very long, and we shall be probably right in assumingnone of them to be older than the seventeenth century. The moreelaborate and squarer form of meshrebiya, used in mosques, is ofcourse older than this, and may date from the fourteenth century.The ceilings… … FIG. 67.—CEILING OF A MESHREBIYA. (South Kensington Museum.) FURNISH THROUGHOUT (Regd.) OETZMANN&Co 67, 69, 71, 73, 77, & 79, jexaivipst:g.a.:d road, NEAR TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD, LONDON.ORDERS PER POST RECEIVE PROMPT AND FAITHFUL ATTENTION.

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