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The art of the Saracens in Egypt (1886)

Lane-Poole, Stanley, 1854-1931 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 248

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ned thehonour. The Sultan Ketbugha allotted him sixty Mamluks, toeach of whom Beysary gave two horses and a mule. The tide * The relative termination,^ affixed to a name, though originally implyingthe relation of slave to master (as El-Ashrafy, the Mamluk of El-Ashraf),came to signify also the mere… … FIG. 8l.—PERFUME-BURNER OF BHYSARY. Thirteenth Century. (South Ke)isington Museum. 212 ART OF THE SARACENS. of fortune changed in 1297, when the Sultan Lagin, moved tojealousy by a rival lord, again consigned Beysary to prison,where he died in 1298, and was buried in his tomb outsidethe…

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