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Notebook M p.5 ‘Milan. Duomo’ ‘The tracery of the rose of the central west window is given at p 30: there are five similar cre[w]scents, nautilus like, round the star: the whole evidently founded on an old pierced rose: the star in the centre ought to be smaller and sharper as at[s] a 1/2 The rest of the architecture among which this curious flamboyant is set, is a perpendicular with horizontal bars across: and with the most detestable crocketing I have ever seen: utterly vile; not a ray of invention in a single form’
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