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                                                                      					    Capitals
For the coming in of these leaves, the house No 6                     
Mercerion, most precious                                              Capitals continued.  In all these capitals founded on truncation the
                                                                      abaci are excessively rude              or            only
                                                                      The next step  as to bend one of the lower fillets round:
                                                                      so as to get a true bell: and to insert Ble or fe leaf
A further advance upon the capital 4 A without altering               under the spiral of each angle:  and in shorter one at
its family is to curve all its leaves:  This is done                  each side:  with or without a rose above:  This capital
in S.M. Matre domini Chessboard                                       I have called L:  It now becomes 4 A
Q. if the capital which I have called Byzantine B. is not             But 4. B.  No leaf is inserted under the spiral
a form of this, examine house in S.M.Matre D. on purspose             But the spiral itself is turned into a leaf:  No which
But observe also - a series of varieties of the capital               lies down on itself after curling.  No intermediate
4 A with a branch of leafage instead of a central leaf;               leaf is given:  and the rose occurs in the centre of
occurring as early as the Fondaco de Turchi No 36 fig 6.              the blank space½  This capital occurring early at
worked out in La Scala monument No 5 fig 1  Give their                St Stefano.  I have called R.  Vid No 53 for R. and L.
two capitals together observing in the Scala one;  the                together.
steps of advance;  the curbing of the leaf extremities;               5.  Parallel with the R. capital, in San Stefano:  a
the setting in of rose, the rounding of all the surfaces              leaf is found with the reversed lobe, very rich (one ori-
and delicate undercutting.  In my drawings the earlier                gin of the most luxuriant capitals) No 30.
capital looks quite as good. but it is far superior in                6.   A massy leaf capital touching abacus with point.
effect.                                                               Bacon palace and several of the Doges.  No 67 and 70
                                                                      an amplification I think of that so often found in the
                                                                      balustrade As No 8.

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