Lomas, John, traveller in Spain · London : A. and C. Black · leaf 200
1238)into the choir of the first Christian church, with theaddition of the beautiful Capilla de nuestra Sefiora deVillaviciosa on the east. Finally came a third, hugeextension eastwards, destroying all the proportions ofthe building, and throwing the Mihrab out of its centralposition. The finest… … Andes, n THE MIHRAB CORDOBA 147 its delicate heptagonal shaping and shell-like roof. Here,in the vestibule now called La Ceca, was kept the mimbarof Al-Hakim II., a desk on wheels, of sandal and ebonywoods, inlaid with ivory and mother-of-pearl, containingthe sacred Koran transcribed by the Khalif…
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