A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 568
xpartite. 4. Sexpartite. Figure 59 sliows plans ofvaults with six cells, and Figs. 60, 61, show theform known as sexpartite, or hexapartite, foundin late Romanesque and early (Jothic work.The side vaults are double and oblique, sejia-rated by an intermediate transverse rib. Fig-ure 62 gives a form… … FiG. 85 (Plan1. tite vault, but it is not. There are four ex-amples, all near Caen in Normandy. 5. Septempartite (Fig. 63). It is made upof half a quadripartite and half a sexpartite. 6. Octopartite. (a) For covering a square space enclosed by965 VAULT walls, as in towers (Fig. 04). Tiicre are…
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