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Third Order Windows.
I have now found the peculiar 3rd order window a. oppo-
site, both lines being traced by the dentil: connected
closely with the first Byzantine round: and having Byzan-
tine bracket capitals in the old house in returned square
of Rialto and the Leaf capital found from the Byzantine
truncation on the grand canal.
I think I can establish the course of this 3rd into the
4th very early: at palazzo Dabololo for instance.
That the 4th is to be considered a true Arabic[e]arch in
its earliest occrurrence and forms an independent branch
running on contemporarily with the 5th.
Now the form a. opposite, carrying us back to what I have
Stay we must correct if also with 4th of A. called the First order, we have called the First order,
we have again the 2nd b; having either, and most usually
the Byzantine plain truncated or that beaved as in palaz
Fabier. I must either pur this as a separate family,
or connect it with the great group of pointed orders and
rounds, wrought with this roll section.
But the form a as on the one hand it becomes the Arabic
4th, so on the other, it became the transitional 5th
c opposite; Taking the bead for the dentil in
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