A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 610
tand air only through doorways of greater orsmaller dimensions, the sitting rooms of differ-ent kinds having high and wide openings, withlittle but curtiiins and low screens to separatethem from the court or garden. The sleepingrooms (see Cubiculum ; House) were very small,and had besides the door… … 1 r ■ WiKDOw, Fig. 1: Ix the Palace at Chaqqa orShakka: 3d Ckxtuky a.d. and left open in warm weather; but nowhereis a window of the usual modern sort known toexist. The Romans, moreover, used glass forwindows but rarely, though it is known thatthey understood the glazing of sash. WINDOW, PART I.…
Architecture
Internet Archive · University of Toronto, Robarts Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
