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 249
their joints require as little care, for the mason can provide for them at the moment of setting by a few strokes of the axe or the addition of a little mortar. But Lassus sees in the diagram an elaborate method of cutting the surfaces of the joints to their required angles, which I shall give in… … upper surface a distance B B', which is greater or A A' of the soffit is supposed to be the same in all
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