[M.94L]                                                               [M.94]
                                                                      No 70	Ducal Palace. Traceries	94
                                                                      
                                                                      		Having now finished the exam. of the four traceried windows
                                                                      		of the D. Palace, I shall fill up in order what is to be
                                                                      		noted of them.
                                                                      The First - let be that on the side of the palace towards prisons, and
                                                                      		furthest from the sea.  This window now belongs to the Camera
                                                                      		di Studio.
                                                                      	1	The tracery.  No 70 Now Place 41 fig 1 showing intersections of great roll
                                                                      		- most curious.   Do what I would, I could not from its
Put into chapter on                                                   		ledge, see the filling of the [diagram] space, but I think it
masonry.                                                              		is filled up by the moulding - solid stone. The parts coloured
and compare the most curious treatment                                		red are cut clean:  and I was excessively puzzled by the position
of joint in fig 1 plate 42 large.                                     		of the joint - the cusp is not solid as in the other windows and
                                                                      	2	the point certainly strikes it as at fig 2;  and there is
                                                                      		no joint at the cusp point - nor could I see any joint in cusp.
                                                                      		except a crack at a fig 2 - it is a great puzzle.
                                                                      		The rose, which fills the [diagram] overlaps the tracery as shown
                                                                      		by dotted line in sect fig 3.
                                                                      		The jamb section - archivolt sec. and tracery are the same as in
                                                                      		the other side window, or second - only its two half shafts have
                                                                      		the small truncated processes which end the cavattos of their spirals
                                                                      	3	rounded instead of cut short off - [diagram] instead of [diagram]
                                                                      		Its but in the central shaft it is cut off as in the
                                                                      		others.  Its capitals have the leaves turned over back as

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