...they enumerated 14 reigns of Incas or sovereigns since their time, which would carry the epoch back to about the end of the 12th, or beginning of the 13th century. In the face of evidence so imperfect, it would be absurd to hazard even a conjecture, much more an...

...ancient monument of the Cornish language, for the manuscript which contains it belongs probably to the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century; and it was copied into this from a more ancient MS. The miracle plays, as wo learn form Carew's Survey...

...dialect prevailed in Germany, the Epic, called the Nibelungelied, (the latest version of which is of the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century, and is, according to Grimm, only a rifacciamento of a much earlier work), is the most remarkable, and has,...

...seems that the south aisle has been lighted by dormer windows. The nave may be set down as belonging to the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century, and as dormer windows are understood not to have been introduced before the latter part of the 14th century,...

...Australia, Java, &c. Chretien de Troyes (kra'ti-en), a French trouvere, born at Troyes about 1150, died about the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century. His fame rests upon six romances still extant, viz. Trie et Guide, Perceval le Gallois, Le Chevalier...

...which were executed by the once famous St. Albans school of painting. The oldest painting dates back to the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century, and represents our Lord upon the Cross, with St. John and the Blessed Virgin on either side. Besides the...

...an anonymous composition, but its author, Jayadratha, belonged to the family of Rajanakas and lived about the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century. The local names as recorded by Jayadratha agree closely with those of the Rajatarangini. Kuttanimata...