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Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)

Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 334

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s arrangement of cusping,though characteristically Moorish,is anything but beautiful. TheMosque of Cordova was begun bythe Caliph Abd-al-Rahman in theyear before he died, and was con-tinued by his son Hisham, and his grandson El-Hakim. It is one of the great congregationalmosques, and occupied a… … Fig- 351- —Moorish Capital.

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