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                                                                      			    No 33 - 34    CA DANIELI
                                                                      Palazzo Danielei.   No 33.  True traceries of the windows described above
                                                                      C. is a left hand cusp:  C-b is continuous.  b2 is the
                                                                      point B; in the continued line long b2 on b: marking the
                                                                      lijes coincide:  and A2 is the apex of arch:  then lay
                                                                      A or A2: ad a2 on a: and A, a2 C2 will give the opposite
                                                                      cusp.
                                                                      		No 34.  Two traceries from left hand cusp of same window
                                                                      The one, at A gi es nearly the base of the cusp as it dies
                                                                      into the arch: and the other, at B  nearly the apex  The
                                                                      line of the enclosing arch is seen in two places at the
                                                                      edge of the paper in B; and all along in A: the paper was
                                                                      bent into it, in B. some attempt was made to trace the
                                                                      bottom of the cusp chamfer.  The two lines about express
	For early cusping vid Loach. plate IX H 10 D.                        its depth.
                                                                      Cusps.		Now note in this architecture, the esquisite grace of the
                                                                      great cusp, whose line is one unbroken curve melting
                                                                      into the other, as theoretically foliation ought to be, vid
                                                                      fig e. p 51, and compare it with the foliation of the cusp,
                                                                      which is actually nothing more than three triangles set on
                                                                      its fillet as opposite, fig 1 and then a little softened.
                                                                      The reason being that the very value of the great cusp
                                                                      reaches  it and renders it wiser to insist upon its line
                                                                      by reduplication, than to vary it by another harmony;
                                                                      Consider how much finer in this respect 1 is, when soft-
                                                                      ened than 2, 4, or even the frequent and beautiful 3

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