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Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon (1912)

Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton), 1848-1923 · London, Murray · leaf 79

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CAPITAL OF TRIFORIUM, ST. SEVER. 56 ST. SEVER emergent from leaves, producing a very rich effect.M. Brutails says there is a Hkeness to the fantasticminiatures in an Apocalypse in the BibliothequeNationale, which came from the Abbey of St. Sever,and is of the period of the Abbot who built the… … CAPITAL FROM ST. SEVER. south aisle is fourteenth-century, and probably dueto repairs after the earthquake of 1372. Apparently,when the French army almost destroyed the monasteryin 1435, the nave was partly thrown down. Thefifteenth-century repairs are very important. Thethree cylindrical piers…

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