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Notebook M p.150 distinguishes the cut out tracery of the Porta della Carta and the ‘adjusted’ tracery of the North, that is tracery apparently cut out from a larger pattern and tracery design adjusted to suit its particular situation. For a photograph see here, and compare the drawing at Palace Book p.26L.
See Works, 9.89 on adjustment in relation to masonry which should not arrest the attention of the architect more than absolute conditions of strength require; and Works, 9.297 on the adjustment of the carving of Adam. Compare Works, 23.86 [n/a] on the ‘natural instinct of adjustment’ as architectural materials are used and adapted to resist forces.
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