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Contents: Cordova Seville Toledo Moorish Ornament List of Illustrations List of Coloured Plates (In certain versions of this etext [in certain browsers]clicking on the image will bring up a larger version.) (etext transcriber's note)

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MOORISH REMAINS IN SPAIN

MOORISH
REMAINS
IN SPAIN

BEING A BRIEF RECORD OF
THE ARABIAN CONQUEST OF THE
PENINSULA WITH A PARTICULAR
ACCOUNT OF THE MOHAMMEDAN
ARCHITECTURE AND DECORATION
IN CORDOVA, SEVILLE & TOLEDO
BY ALBERT F. CALVERT

LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD
NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY, MCMVI

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E. Goodman and Son, Phœnix Printing Works, Taunton.{v} 

DEDICATION

TO HIS MAJESTY KING ALFONSO XIII.

Sire,

The great interest Your Majesty has evinced in the Moorish Monumentswhich adorn Your Majesty’s loyal and noble country, and the graciousappreciation with which You were pleased to regard my work on TheAlhambra, inspired me with the presumption to solicit the honour of YourMajesty’s August Patronage for this volume, which is humbly dedicated toYour Majesty agreeably to Your Majesty’s gracious permission, by

Your Majesty’s humble Servant,

Albert F. Calvert.

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PREFACE

THE inception of my work on The Alhambra, to which this book is designedto be the companion and complementary volume, was due to thedisappointing discovery that no such thing as an even moderatelyadequate souvenir of the Red Palace of Granada, “that glorious sanctuaryof Spain,” was in existence. It was written at a time when I shared thevery common

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