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                                                                      5											5
                                                                      
                                                                      
                                                                                                               Capitals.
Byzantine.  A. various.                                               
Byzantine B.  Dying out. Commisary of Police a capital                                 Now of Capitals!  There will be;  first the Byzantine of
which I have called L.L. and of which I must look at the              	Various character - some half Corinthian - some Ionic
example with 3rd order in house No 2, and again - Palazzo             and associated with them in the Fondaco de Turchi:  the
Sergedo most valuable.                                                Plain truncated - in the Church of San Jacopo del’ Orio
                                                                      with the earliest Lombard spiral.
                                                                      	In St Marks, I apprehend I shall find some of these
                                                                      simpler capitals:  and they mark the coming of the
                                                                      Lombardic Current.
And in Commissaire of Police house, with a byzantine                  They appear under swe forms
form dying out 1. A. from truncated 1 B circular truncated            	1.  A.  The Pure truncated of the Fondaco de Turchi
of later.                                                             which on no 37 I got assocated with the pure round arch
                                                                      and roll, and in No 81 with Cusps.
2nd B.  Instead of  rubbing and occupying angle with spiral           2nd A.  The truncated and ribbed or[n] incised on the
a decoration form appears, by laying a simple leaf on the             leaf:  This is the capital associated constantly with my
angle as on Grand Canal No             and in Ca Falier.              2nd order, vid also No 112, and many other cases when it
But this I imagine a later form assocuated with appearance            goes with the round arch, as No 42.
of rose on the Lombard                                                3rd.  Truncated - ribbed - and with spiral at the top
                                                                      No 112 a beautiful example.  Columns of the church of San
                                                                      Jacopo dell’ Orlo: - (now associated I think, either
                                                                      with round arches, as on No 112 or with pointed Gothic
                                                                      San Jacopo) and door at Verona, on No 4.

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