Facsimile of the sketch-book of Wilars de Honecort, an architect of the thirteenth century : illustrated by commentaries and descriptions (1859)

Villard, de Honnecourt, active 13th century, Lassus, Jean Baptiste Antoine, 1807-1857, Darcel, Alfred, 1818-1893, Quicherat, Jules Étienne Joseph, 1814-1882, Willis, Robert, 1799-1878 · London : John Henry and James Parker · leaf 236

An illustration from Facsimile of the sketch-book of Wilars de Honecort, an architect of the thirteenth century : illustrated by commentaries and descriptions, 1859, leaf 236 — taille-t-on les sominiers (arrachemens) de voute u." " Thus are shaped the first, or springing stones of a vault, or arch" The first stones of an arch-vault are to this day called "arrachemens" by French masons, and the purpose of this diagram is merely to shew how to trace the soffit. In fig. 7, A… … shaped to the curvature of the soffit, being placed with that edge in contact with the two points B and C, enables the curve to be traced. This explanation differs from that given by Wilars only in the position of the stone, which in our diagram is placed in its true position, as easier to…

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