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A treatise on heraldry, British and foreign : with English and French glossaries (1896)

Woodward, John, 1837-1898 · Edinburgh ; London : W. & A.K. Johnston · leaf 70

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gate of Mare-stan, and on the Bab el Haded—the Iron Gate. {See fig. 10,from VArt Arabe of M. GAYET,Paris 1894.) Among the decorations of thelovely Alhambra at Granada, Iremarked (notably in the Salade la Berkah, and the Hall ofJustice) the frequent employ-ment of the shield of its founder MOHAMMED… … Fig. 11.—Arab Fleur-de-lis. ( 40 ) certainly a mistake ; nowhere in the Alhambra have Iso seen it, or indeed anywhere else. The tournaments which became general in thethirteenth and following centuries, had probably a verymuch larger influence upon armory than can beattributed to the Crusades; and…

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