A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 561
groined andcloistered vaulting, occurring in a mosque atEpbesus. (/) A square room may be severed by fourJul VAULT quadripartite vaults, each springing at one ofits corners from a central pillar, as in Fig.21. In a similar manner, a square space maybe covered by nine vaults on four jjillars. II.… … Fig. 50 (Plan and Section). the main vault, but both springing from thesame level, so that the intersection is not com-plete (Figs. 22, 23, 2-i). The horizontal pro-jection of the groin line is a hyperbola. Welshvaults are unknown in Koniun work, but arecommon in Romanesque and the later…
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