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                                                                      	angle shaft, secondly fr. its di[o]sturbed tracery rudely
                                                                      given at p 39 1 door book.  The central trefoil should be
                                                                      symmetrical but the relation of the cutting out of the
	Note  The great det. 5th in the Pal. Pruli b[s]eside the prin-       cusp is true as compared with that of the semi lateral
cipal finestrata have had cusps lime the rest, now cut                trefoil.  The fact is the semicircle is described with
away.  I am particularly puzzled in this palace by the                the outer roll of tracery;  Then the inner mouldings make
introduction of the heads in the capitals;  the cupped ones           the space to be foliated too small and in order to give
have indeed an early look - but the others are blundering i[n]        the effect of a semi trefoil, the foils made[are] even less
palace.  The whole has been however so patched that it                than semicircles, and the spandril space is thrown nearly
would need as much work as the Ducal palace itself to dis-            upright:  Yet the figure if complete would not be a 4
entangle it.                                                          foil, it is altogether nondescript and deceives the eye so
Compare house No 94 p 42 Door book.                                   cleverly that I did not see it till I drew the tracery
                                                                      This is the most remarkable instance I have yet obtained
                                                                      of Italian adjustment.
                                                                      The tracery bar is given real size with root of cusp, p
                                                                      76 1 Gothic book, fig 1  the arch with cusp profile fig 2
                                                                      the surrounding square moulding with the tracery "junction
                                                                      bery anomalous?) p 78 fig 3.  the capital of the great
                                                                      angle shaft, shaft of greay granite, far greater strength
                                                                      I suppose) fig 4. the pil head fig 5.  The angle shaft
                                                                      has a plain raised leaf base;  the pils have a dog tooth
                                                                      on the base, and a curious emergent small shaft half way
                                                                      up, which has carried something, now broken away;  they
                                                                      are bold cch and have florid capitals with child heads
                                                                      vilely cut.

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