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‘Sicily was, with Spain, a principal route for the entry of Muslim art to Europe. Among the regalia of the Holy Roman Emperors transferred to Germany in 1194* by the Hohenstaufen Henry VI** on his marriage with Constance, daughter of Roger II, was the coronation robe made for Roger in Palermo in 1133-4,*** in accordance [sic] with the Kufic inscription embroidered in gold along its lower edge. The main element of the design embroidered in gold on a Byzantine red silk ground shows identical images in reverse of a lion bringing down a camel**** and with a stylized date-palm in the center. The outline is vigorous and the action almost natural, but the detail is highly stylised and completely flat, the indication of mane and ribs being reduced to a pattern, while the lion mask is almost floral. Space-filling floral arabesques are introduced on the bodies of both lion and camel, while stars of different magnitudes are indicated at several points, as in astronomical illustrations found in manuscripts of as-Sufi who wrote his book on the Forms of the Fixed Stars under the Bayids in 960[ce], and of which a copy dated 1009[ce] is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and also on the related celestial globes, the earliest surviving examples of which were made in Spain in the 11^th century.#

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**{[[Redbook9:101][19910414:1104h]{Islamic Cultural Influence}[14th April 1991]] 101}

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****cf [[Redbook9:152][19910421:1410e]{[Islamic Art –] Visual Arts [continued –] The Tree of Wisdom}[21st April 1991],] 152

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#*[– ibid (Encyclopaedia of Visual Arts 3:) 435-436]

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