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                                                                      	  No 113 b.
                                                                      low - it can hardly be called sarcophagus - rather bed;
                                                                      it has a rich pillow, but it is laid on a simple drapery
                                                                      which runs all al[,]ong the top of the couch.  The angle
                                                                      of the couch, with one fold of its drapery (t) is given
                                                                      on p 23 G. book:  The rose r. and plinth rz are given
                                                                      real size on No 113 b and in their proper juxtaposition:
                                                                      The section 1 on that paper is the transverse section x y
                                                                      of left hand rose, 2 is the prfile of a leaf at the side
                                                                      as seen above a;  the apex being at right hand 3 a section
                                                                      through the angle of the square across the centre of same
                                                                      rose;  4 through the middle of a leaf and through centre
                                                                      of the 5 foiledrose.  5. the flower plinth below with
                                                                      skeleton of leaf.
                                                                      Fig A p 23 1 G.l b[n]ook is the leaf of the base of small
                                                                      shaft opposite.  It is most bautiful in its lines and has
                                                                      a sharp ridge but no rib, while that of the base of the
                                                                      shrine shafts above is richly ribbed:  The lower is the
                                                                      leaf almost exactly of the Doge palace tracery shaft, and
                                                                      the other of its loggia shaft.
                                                                      Ducal Palace	Today 17th January:  I examined the shafts of the upper
                                                                      arcade towards the sea:  Now, in the other Bolume at
                                                                      p. 100 I have noted two distinct periods of bad capitals
                                                                      - one when Gothic yet existed, but degraded;  the other
                                                                      one of modern restoration.
                                                                      Now I found to-day vid p 26 Gothic book, a whole

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