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686 herself to jurisprudence, at Corduba, where she was distinguished for her writings and piety: she died in the 319th year of the Hegira. . wrote very skilfully, with her brother, Precepts of Law, and a History of her own Times, wherein you may admire the dignity and elegance of her style.

for her learning; wrote with her own hand many volumes in an elegant manner; died unmarried, in the 427th year of the Hegira, aged 94.

first priestess of Apollo, and utterer of the delphic oracles; said to have been the inventor of heroic verse, in which she wrote many things. . betrothed to Edward (when prince of Wales and aged 14) in 1325, through the mediation of Isabella, his mother, who sojourned for a short time at the court of