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                                                                      	          BOURGES  CATHEDRAL
                                                                      
                                                                      	damas et taffetas xx et astoitent en cette compagnie
                                                                      Ananias et Saphie sa femme - honnetement habilles.
                                                                      Les philosophes d’Athenes au nombre desquelles etoit St
                                                                      Denis.
                                                                      Capitals.	On No 188 it was noted that their effect always depended 
                                                                      on the plinth and leafage band;  an example of both is
                                                                      seen in fig 1 No 194 which is the shaft capital of one of
                                                                      the piers between mediate and southern aisle Fig 2 and 3 an[d]
                                                                      4 are its sections;  2, through bell showing its amount
                                                                      of retiring and prospective.  3. through angles with sec-
                                                                      tion of leaf showing the way its black central mass is cut
                                                                      back, and 4 across the leaf;
                                                                      The whole thing is utterly vulgar, the moulding too high
                                                                      and too much cut  this leaf like cast iron below and like a
                                                                      curl paper above;  Now this leaf is nothing more than a
                                                                      development of the singular process which above studs all
                                                                      the mouldings of the arches outside;  Fig 6 is one of their
                                                                      archivolts, and is characteristic of all - they are, for
                                                                      the most part, the shafts also, and the archivolts always,
                                                                      composed of cavetto, between these rolls, a large roll to
                                                                      front the cavette do ted all up with their double processes
                                                                      like verteb[r]rae of which it is exceedingly difficult to
                                                                       guess the origin.  fig 5 from an arch in southern tower is
                                                                      a caref 1

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