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A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 189
they were sup-plied with wind by means of bel-lows at the back, which wereworked by an attendant, and notby the player. Besides these largeinstruments there was also a smallportable organ, sometimes calleda pair of Reg ah formerly inuse, and this was occasionally ofsuch a size as to admit of its… … ©nil—©Ma. Oriel, or Oriole (Lat. Oratoriolum, or little place forprayer, its original moaning). It■was a portion of an apartment setaside for prayer. In mediseval housesit was not an uncommon practice toarrange the domestic oratory so thatthe sacrarium was the whole heightof the building, while…Architecture -- Dictionaries · Architecture -- Terminology
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