More magic pictures of the long ago; stories of the people of many lands; with reproductions from works of art and old manuscripts (1920)
Chandler, Anna Curtis · New York : H. Holt · leaf 87
s soon asthou art able, . . . A piteous thing, and worthy of tears, is the deathof this saintly prince who kept and guarded his realmso holily and loyally, wrote the Sire de Joinville,and like as the scribe who, writing his book, il-luminates it with gold and azure, so did the said king 70 THE TALE… … Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. PARCHMENT SHOWING THE CRUSADE OF ST. LOUIS French, 16th century. You can see the River Nile with its many mouths, the fortifications of Damietta,the tents of the soldiers, and the queer, high ships. for the Crusaders brought back from the learned menof…
Children's stories · Storytelling
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