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 345
des the length into two unequal parts, or arms. The short arm of the verge is accordingly thick and strong, and the long arm gradually tapered from the axis to the extremity. From the short arm is suspended a chest, or other receptacle, roughly con- structed of boards, and, as Honecort tells us,… … Figure 26. it is wider below than above, and its bottom curved, in order to accommodate its form to the swinging motion which it must have assumed, and which would have brought the corners of a square-sided chest awkwardly into contact with the
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