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                                                                      	CAMPO DE MIRACOLO HOUSE AT  MURANO  DUOMO
                                                                      		Unusual in such wondwos capital:  of pure early 5th 
                                                                      in second story:  on very early R. shafts:  all with flat
                                                                      c3 sec. finally in first story, 4ths with c on an exces-
                                                                      sively quaint form of R. the rose a mere bud, not open,
                                                                      though it is open above:  and the leaves curled round but
                                                                      (I think not filleted)
                                                                      All the other figures on this p 33 G Book are of the beau-
                                                                      tiful door of the house at the Miracolo.  The finial
                                                                      gives twice bottom and top:  the ½ dentil real size;
                                                                      General outline fig 2 with masonry  Savab section fig 3 in
                                                                      which a-b is just across the width of the book open and
                                                                      ½ an inch more, fig 5 angle of cable curious while in
                                                                      centre C it has a leaf.  The archivolt section is most 
                                                                      		carefully given at fig 4 and its profile fig 6
                                                                      I never saw such sharp small dogteeth, three to each
                                                                      gabled dentil and the gabled dentils so flat and outer
                                                                      one so huge:  All cut with the greatest precision, the larg
                                                                      er dentil in red Verona marble.  The finial looks as if
                                                                      intended for a bracket
                                                                      Duomo Murano p 51 Goth. book%  A with b and c its sections a
                                                                      moulding round the large bas relief of wreathed birds
                                                                      and flowers of Aquleian or Byzantine work, built into the
                                                                      outside end of the aisle.  This moulding is all cut in a
                                                                      piece with it:  and is remarkable as an earlg form de-
                                                                      rived from the Greek dentil;  so that I must not

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