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No 70 DUCAL PALACE TRACERIES
Having now finished the exam. of the four traceried windows
of the D. Palace, I shall fill up in order what is to be
noted of them.
The First - let be that on the side of the palace towards prisons,
and furthest from the sea. This window now belongs to
the Camera di Studio.
1 The tracery. Now Place 41 fig 1 showing intersections of
great roll - most crious. Do what I would, I could not
Put into chapter on Masonry. from its ledge, see the filling of the space
and compare the most curious treatment of joint in fig 1 but I think it is filled up by the moulding - solid stone.
plate 42 large. The parts coloured red are cut clear: and I was excessive-
2 ly puzzled by the position of the joint - the cusp is not
solid as in the other windows and the point certainly
strikes it as at fig 2; and there is no joint at the
cusp point, not could I see any joint is cusp, except a
crack at a fig 2 - it is a great puzzle.
The rose, which fills the overlaps the tracery as
shown by dotted line in sect fig 3.
The jamb section - archivolt sec. and tracery are the
same as in the other side window, or second - only its
two half shafts have the small truncated processes which
3 end the cavattos of their spirals rounded instead of cut
short off - instead of
but in the central shaft it is cut off as in the others,
Its capitals have the leaves turned over back as
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