Notebook M pp.4-5 ‘Milan, Friday 27th Oct. The cathedral is a mixture of perpendicular with flamboyant: the latter being peculiarly barbarous and angular, owing to its being engrafted, not on pure, but a very early penetrative Gothic fig 1. p 29. as given in bands at fig 2 [. . .] but when finally foliated as in fig 1 the inner lobes with round the outer with sharp foils - but all vulgar in curve: and chasing eachother round, the inner lobes topsy turvy at one side and the outer at the other [. . .] The fig 1 is 1/2 of the rose of the window in northern side of the triagenal apse’
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