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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 400

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culus by a moreelaborate pattern. Excellent examples of windows of thistype--known as windows with plate tracery — may be seenin the clearstory of Chartres (111. 218). Plate tracery, whichfirst came into use c. 1200, always consists of openings cut ina solid wall, the pattern thus being formed of… … III. X-lo. — Rouen. Portail des Libraires WINDOW TRACERY to be more and more reduced until before the end of the firstquarter of the XIII century they had become true mullions— i.e., slender reed-like interstices of stone, profiled and sup-plied with capitals. Tracery formed of mullions is known…

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