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Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)

Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York, The Baker and Taylor Company · leaf 496

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lways ofthe type of the Abbaye-aux-Hommes; vaults of the type of theAbbaye-aux-Dames, which seem to preserve a more primitiveform, and an intermediate stage of the evolution, are never foundoutside of Normandy. This fact argues strongly that the sex-partite vault must have originated in Normandy… … Iix. 136. — Tower of St. Contest- (From Riipricli-Robert)

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