Chapter XII: Illuminated Manuscripts 298

INDEX OF NAMES, &C. 309

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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FIG. PAGE

1. MOSQUE OF KAIT BEY _Frontispiece_

2. EAST COLONNADE OF THE MOSQUE OF ‘AMR 50

3. PLAN OF THE MOSQUE OF ‘AMR 51

4. MOSQUE OF IBN-TULUN 55

5. ARCADES IN MOSQUE OF IBN-TULUN (Ninth Century) 59

6. DIAGRAM SHOWING PROPORTIONS OF A DOME 62

7. PLAN OF THE MOSQUE OF SULTAN HASAN 63

8. ORNAMENT FROM THE PORTAL OF SULTAN HASAN 69

9. KUFIC FRIEZE IN MOSQUE OF SULTAN HASAN 71
(Fourteenth Century)

10. DOORWAY OF SMALLER MOSQUE OF KAIT BEY 75
(Fifteenth Century)

11. DOORWAY OF A PRIVATE HOUSE 79

12. A STREET IN CAIRO 81

13. PLAN OF A CAIRO HOUSE.—GROUND FLOOR 83

13A. „ „ FIRST FLOOR 84

13B. „ „ SECOND FLOOR 85

14. ROSETTE IN MOSQUE OF SUYURGHATMISH (Fourteenth 93
Century)

15. ROSETTE IN MOSQUE OF SULTAN HASAN (Fourteenth 97
Century)

16. STONE PULPIT IN MOSQUE OF BARKUK (Early 99
Fifteenth Century)

17, 18. GEOMETRICAL ORNAMENTS FROM THE WEKALA OF KAIT 101
BEY

19. ARCHED ORNAMENT OF THE WEKALA OF KAIT BEY 103
(Fifteenth Century)

20. GEOMETRICAL ORNAMENT OF THE WEKALA OF KAIT BEY 107
(Fifteenth Century)

21. ELEVATION OF PART OF THE SHOP-FRONTS OF THE 108
WEKALA OF KAIT BEY

22. ARABESQUE ORNAMENT OF WEKALA OF KAIT BEY 109
(Fifteenth Century)

23, 24. GEOMETRICAL ORNAMENTS OF THE WEKALA OF KAIT BEY 110

25. ROSETTE OF THE WEKALA OF KAIT BEY (Fifteenth 111
Century)

26. ARABESQUE OF THE WEKALA OF KAIT BEY 113

27. GEOMETRICAL ORNAMENT OF THE WEKALA OF KAIT BEY 114

28. MOSAIC DADO 117

29. MOSAIC PAVEMENT 118

30. MODE OF BEVELLING MOSAICS 119

31. MOSAIC PAVEMENT 122

32. CARVED PANEL OF PULPIT 125

33. CARVED PANEL OF PULPIT 126

34. PULPIT OF SULTAN KAIT BEY (Fifteenth Century) 127

35, 36, CARVED PANELS OF LAGIN’S PULPIT, ONCE IN THE 130
37, 38. MOSQUE OF IBN-TULUN. A.D. 1296

39. ARABESQUE PANEL OF LAGIN’S PULPIT, ONCE IN THE 131
MOSQUE OF IBN-TULUN

40. PANEL OF LAGIN’S PULPIT, BEARING HIS NAME AND 131
TITLES

41. CARVED PANELS FROM PULPIT (OF KUSUN?) 133
(Fourteenth Century)

42. CARVED PANELS FROM PULPIT (OF KUSUN?) 135
(Fourteenth Century)

43. CARVED PANELS OF THE TOMB OF ES-SALIH AYYUB 137
(Thirteenth Century)

44. CARVED PANEL OF A SHEYKH’S TOMB. A.D. 1216 141

45. PANEL OF A DOOR FROM DAMIETTA 142

46, 47. CARVED PANELS FROM THE MARISTAN OF KALAUN 143
(Thirteenth Century)

48. CARVED PANEL FROM THE MARISTAN OF KALAUN 145

49. LATTICE-WORK 146

50. LATTICE-WORK 148

51. LATTICE-WORK 150

52. LATTICE-WORK 151

53. LATTICE-WORK 152

54. LATTICE-WORK 153

55. LATTICE-WORK 154

56. LATTICE-WORK 155

56A. LATTICE-WORK 157

57. LATTICE-WORK 159

58. LATTICE-WORK 160

59, 60. CARVED AND INLAID LATTICE-WORK 161

61. PANELLED DOOR FROM A COPT’S HOUSE 163

62, PANELLED DOORS 165
63, 64.

65. CEILING OF APPLIQUÉ WORK 166

66. TABLE (KURSY) 167

67. CEILING OF A MESHREBIYA 169

68. CARVED IVORY PANEL 172

69. CARVED IVORY PANELS OF A PULPIT DOOR 173

70. INLAID IVORY AND EBONY DOOR 175

71. INLAID IVORY AND EBONY PANEL FROM A TABLE 177

72. IVORY INK HORN 179

73. INSCRIPTION INTERWOVEN WITH FIGURES ON THE 183
“BAPTISTERY OF ST. LOUIS”

74. TABLE FROM MARISTAN OF KALAUN (Thirteenth 187
Century)

75. PANEL OF TABLE OF EN-NASIR, SON OF KALAUN 190

76. LAMP OF SULTAN BEYBARS II. (A.D. 1309-10) 191

77. BASE OF CHANDELIER OF SULTAN EL-GHORY 195
(Sixteenth Century)

78. LANTERN OF SHEYKH ‘ABD-EL-BASIT 197

79. COVER OF SHERBET BOWL (Sixteenth Century) 201

80. CASKET OF EL-‘ADIL, GRAND NEPHEW OF SALADIN 205
(Thirteenth Century)

81. PERFUME-BURNER OF BEYSARY (Thirteenth Century) 211

82. INLAID SILVER PANELS OF THE “BAPTISTERY OF ST. 219
LOUIS”

83, 84, BRONZE PLAQUES FROM DOOR OF BEYBARS I. 224
85, 86.

87. BRASS BOWL INLAID WITH SILVER (Fourteenth 231
Century)

88. BRASS CANDLESTICK INLAID WITH SILVER 235
(Fourteenth Century)

89. BRASS BOWL OF KAIT BEY (Fifteenth Century) 237

90. LAMP FROM JERUSALEM 241

91. ARMS FOR LION-HUNTING 245

92. DIAGRAM OF GLASS LAMP 252

93. GLASS LAMP OF AKBUGHA (Fourteenth Century) 257

94. VASE OF SULTAN BEYBARS II. 262

95, 96. STAINED GLASS WINDOWS 264

97, 98. STAINED GLASS WINDOWS 265

99. ASYUT COFFEE-POT 275

100. SILK FABRIC OF ICONIUM (Thirteenth Century) 283

101. DAMASK, WORN BY HENRY THE SAINT (Eleventh 291
Century)

102. SILK FABRIC OF EGYPT OR SICILY 295

103. ILLUMINATED KORAN OF SULTAN SHA‘BAN 299
(Fourteenth Century)

104. ILLUMINATED KORAN OF SULTAN SHA‘BAN 303
(Fourteenth Century)

105. ILLUMINATED KORAN OF SULTAN EL-MUAYYAD 305
(Fifteenth Century)

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*** The Department is indebted to Mr. John Murray for the use of Figs. 3 and 7; to Messrs. Virtue & Co. for Figs. 2, 4, 25, 66, 71, 74-8, 99; to Messrs. Cassell for Figs. 8, 9, 13, 91, 94, 101-5; to M. Leroux for Figs. 73, 82, 90; and to M. Giraud for Fig. 100.

_THE ART OF THE SARACENS
IN EGYPT._

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