Mediaeval Sicily, aspects of life and art in the middle ages . THE FAVARAH Cironnd plan after x ./ V X y X, gi i;:;:1r •:» m ?a- y; ftt i:t 1^^++- jU. 11. .11., a, H,. j;!!. .?:^, ^ ?.. 7 J „ _ 1 ^ ? ^J??, r1. hriH LJ 1 —-XJ /.eitschrift fiir Ba uticsen. PALACE, PALERMO First floor. Zeitschriftfur Banwesen 124 ARABO-NORMAN PALACES Several interesting passages in the descriptionsof contemporaries, such as those given in the pre-ceding chapter, must therefore remain must rest content with knowing in a generalway that there was an outer courtyard
Mediaeval Sicily, aspects of life and art in the middle ages . THE FAVARAH Cironnd plan after x ./ V X y X, gi i;:;:1r •:» m ?a- y; ftt i:t 1^^++- jU. 11. .11., a, H,. j;!!. .?:^, ^ ?.. 7 J „ _ 1 ^ ? ^J??, r1. hriH LJ 1 —-XJ /.eitschrift fiir Ba uticsen. PALACE, PALERMO First floor. Zeitschriftfur Banwesen 124 ARABO-NORMAN PALACES Several interesting passages in the descriptionsof contemporaries, such as those given in the pre-ceding chapter, must therefore remain must rest content with knowing in a generalway that there was an outer courtyard or baileywith several sturdy towers and the usual con-glomeration of offices, workshops—one of thesethe tirdz or silk weavery—servants, soldiers andcourtiers quarters found in all outer baileys ofmediaeval castles. To the right, raised up highwith a flight of marble steps leading to it, therewas the Royal Chapel with an outer portico (onthree sides ?) and a detached bell-tower ; beyondthis, round an inner courtyard, the residential part,built on different levels and described by a con-temporary Arabic poet as having loggie, turrets,clothed (by the vegetation) with beautiful brocadescovering the perfumed soil as with carpets ofSind, when the zephyrs brought the fragra
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