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 376
222 EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. support, but the decorative effect is that of a hoop simply resting on the light- heads. In the earliest remaining specimen at Amiens, which is at the south-eastern extremity of the nave, a little crocket projects from the jamb-mold of compartment B (fig. 37) to touch… … Iti fig. 38 the two methods are shewn, namely, Fig, 40.— Eastern gable, Salisbury Cathedral. the primitive detachment of the hoop on the left-hand side of the drawing, and the arrangement in which it is united to the roll-molding of the lateral arch on the right-hand side. These two methods are…
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