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... earliest . Prynne's Histrio - mastix , 1633 , an early index more readable than the book itself . Pope's Homer contains a " curious poetical index to the Iliad . . . referring to all the places in which similes are used . " - A ...
... earliest . Prynne's Histrio - mastix , 1633 , an early index more readable than the book itself . Pope's Homer contains a " curious poetical index to the Iliad . . . referring to all the places in which similes are used . " - A ...
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Three kinds of early architec- tural decoration Buyid silks Early ceramics By courtesy of ( left ,. est extant example of muqarnas or the stalactite - like dec- oration that would later be an important element of Islamic architectural ...
Three kinds of early architec- tural decoration Buyid silks Early ceramics By courtesy of ( left ,. est extant example of muqarnas or the stalactite - like dec- oration that would later be an important element of Islamic architectural ...
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... early Islamic style Architec- tural traditional- ism. wealth of the Muslim princes . Except for a large num- ber of silver plates and ewers belonging to the Sasanian tradition , nothing has remained . These silver objects were probably ...
... early Islamic style Architec- tural traditional- ism. wealth of the Muslim princes . Except for a large num- ber of silver plates and ewers belonging to the Sasanian tradition , nothing has remained . These silver objects were probably ...
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