A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 570
VAULT each sido are met at tlie eeiitre, not by theirother halves, but by an intcrmeiliate rib. ;{. (Junuiuepartite. (n) For eoveriiig a jieutagonal spaee. Twoforms are sliown in Fi-j. (7, and also one eover-iug a seniieircle, and one a tra])ezoid. … Fig. 84 (Plax). (b) Covering a rectangle (Fig. 58). It iscomposed of three quarters of a quadripartitevault and one quarter of a sexpartite. 4. Sexjjartite. Figure 59 shows plans ofvaults with six cells, and Figs. GO, 61, show theform known as sexpartite, or hexapartite, foundin late Romanesque and…
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