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The cathedrals and churches of the Rhine (1906)

Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco), b. 1871, McManus, Blanche · London : Brimley Johnson & Ince · leaf 162

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and Beatrice, the wife of thegreat Barbarossa. Above the tombs of the emperors one mayread the following Latin inscription: Filius hie — Pater Hie — Avus Hie — Proavusjacet is tie — Hie proavi eonjux — Hie Henri ci Senior is. The cathedral of Speyer was far from beingcompleted at this time, but the… … was rearing itself skyward, and in 1060 theedifice was practically complete, after thirtyyears of persevering effort. It is a bizarre sort of a church as seen to-129 Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine day, and must always have had much the samecharacter; still it is of a style which gave birthto…

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