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CHAPTER VIII.-PLATES 31, 32, 33, 34, 35.
ARABIAN ORNAMENT,
FROM CAIRO.
PLATE XXXI.
This Plate consists of the ornamented Architraves and Soffits of the Windows
in the interior of the Mosque of Tooloon,
Cairo. They are executed in plaster, and nearly all the windows are of a
different pattern. The main arches of the building
are decorated in the same way; but only a fragment of one of the soffits
now remains, sufficiently large to make out the design.
This is given in Plate XXXIII., No. 14.
Nos. 1-14, 27, 29, 34-39, are designs from architraves round the windows.
The rest of the patterns are from their soffits
and jambs.
The Mosque of Tooloon was founded A.D. 876-7, and these ornaments are certainly
of that date. It is the oldest Arabian
building in Cairo, and is specially interesting as one of the earliest known
examples of the pointed arch.
PLATE XXXII.
1-7. From the Parapet of the Mosque of Sultan Kalaoon.
9,16. Ornaments round Arches in the Mosque En Nasi-
reeyeh.
11-13. Ornaments round curved Architraves in the Mosque
Sultan Kalaoon.
14. Soffit of one of the Main Arches in the Mosque of
Tooloon.
15-21. Ornaments on the Mosque of Kalaoon.
22. Wooden Stringcourse Pulpit.
23-25. From the Mosque of Kalaoon.
The Mosque of Kalaoon was founded in the year 1284-5. All these ornaments
are executed in plaster, and seem to
have been cut on [the stucco while still wet.  There is too great a variety
on the patterns, and even disparities on the
corresponding parts of the same pattern, to allow of their having been cast
or struck from moulds.
PLATE XXXIII.
From the Parapet of the Mosque of Sultan Kalaoon.
Curved Architraves from ditto.
Soffit of Arch, Mosque En Nasireeyeh.
From Door in the Mosque El Barkookeyeh.
Wooden Architrave, Mosque En Nasireeyeh.
15. Soffit of Window, Mosque of Kalaoon.
16,17. Wooden Architraves.
18. Frieze round Tomb, Mosque En Nasireeyeh.
19. Wooden Architrave.
20-23. Ornaments from various Mosques.
PLATE XXXIV.
These designs were traced from a splendid copy of the Koran in the Mosque
El Barkookeyeh, founded A.D. 1384.
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1-7.
.8-10.
12.
13.
14,