[M2.185L]                                                             [M2.185]								185
                                                                      
[drawings]                                                            		with a first in a window, between the nave and southern
                                                                      		tower, the sections on No 195 fig 1 the part drawn at
                                                                      		fall on abacus;  2. entire archivolt - not seen in
                                                                      		drawing.  3 second order, tracery bar 4.  sub arch
[drawing]	College at Edinburgh                                        		of archivolt (more accurate than in fig 2) being the part
		Make two lower windows equal:  and each divided                     		separating above in No 194.
		in half.                                                            		I need not insist on the clumsiness of the whole
		Now, how meaningless this is as well as                             		arrangement  The Italians never start a moulding out of a cavetto
		ugly.  For who can possibly live in the                             		in this way, it is a stage trick of the north: already
		square room at top, lighted by a single                             		in the way the mouldings run into one another, showing
		slit, fit neither for bells nor anything                            		the evil of flamboyant beginnings.
		else, & the pinnacles have not so much                              		The outer order of fig 2 is remarkably characteristic
		as wreath corbels on them - mere finials                            		of the vulgar bead falling within the original angle.
		No string courses.                                                  		(as fig 1 opposite or even sometimes as narrow necked
                                                                      		as fig 2:  fig 2 in No 195 was drawn very carefully
                                                                      		a break giving me good view of its narrow neck) which is
                                                                      		characteristic of these northern styles,  How much finer
                                                                      		the wall filled & quiet Italian mouldings - what a
                                                                      		false energy in all this undercutting.  Compare the
                                                                      		superb moulding of central door of San Fermo of Verona
                                                                      		p 24 w. Bit book, so admirably kept within simple lines;
                                                                      		note its apex is a little less than at rt angles as drawn

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