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                                                                      			Bourges Cathedral
                                                                      
                                                                      		damas et taffetas xx et estoitent en cette compagnie
                                                                      		Ananias et Saphie sa femme - honnestement habillés.
                                                                      		Les philosophes d’Athenes au nombre desquelles etoit St
                                                                      		Denis.
                                                                      Capitals.	On No 188 it was noted that their effect always depended 
                                                                      		on the plinth and leafage band;  an example of both is
                                                                      		seen in fig 1 No 194 which is the shaft capital of one of
                                                                      		the piers between mediate and southern aisle Fig 2 and 3 &
                                                                      		4 are its sections;  2, through bell showing its amount
                                                                      		of retiring & prospective.  3. through angles with section
                                                                      		of leaf showing the way its black central mass is cut
                                                                      		back, and 4 across the leaf;
                                                                      		The whole thing is utterly vulgar, the moulding too high
                                                                      		and too much cut  this leaf like cast iron below and like a
                                                                      		curl paper above;  Now this leaf is nothing more than a
                                                                      		development of the singular process which above studs all
                                                                      		the mouldings of the arches outside;  Fig 6 is one of their
                                                                      		archivolts, and is characteristic of all - they are, for
                                                                      		the most part, the shafts also, and the archivolts always,
                                                                      		composed of cavettos, between these rolls, a large roll to
                                                                      		front the cavetto dotted all up with their double processes
                                                                      		like vertebrae of which it is exceedingly difficult to
                                                                      		guess the origin.  fig 5 from an arch in southern tower is
                                                                      		a careful

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