Vitruvius, An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius (1692)
Date
1692
Author
Lexicon title
Explication of the Hardest Terms in Architecture
Book title
An Abridgment of the Architecture OF Vitruvius. Containing A System of the whole Works of that Author. Illustrated with divers Copper Plates, curiously engraved; with a Table of Explanation, To which is added in this Edition The Etymology and Derivation of the Terms used in Architecture. First done in French by Monsr Perrault, of the Academy of Paris, and now Englished, with Additions
Publication place
London
Publisher
Abel Swall and T. Child
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP (Henry E. Huntington Library)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
architecture
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
O1r-O6v
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 19
number: 19
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 79
sample: Attique signifies after the manner of the City of Athens. In Vitruvius it's the Name of the Basis which the Moderns have given to the Dorick Pillar. We call Attique in our Buildings, a little Order placed upon another much greater; for instead of Pillars, this little Order has commonly nothing but Pillasters of a particular Fashion and Order, which we call Attique (O1v)
number: 79
sample: Attique signifies after the manner of the City of Athens. In Vitruvius it's the Name of the Basis which the Moderns have given to the Dorick Pillar. We call Attique in our Buildings, a little Order placed upon another much greater; for instead of Pillars, this little Order has commonly nothing but Pillasters of a particular Fashion and Order, which we call Attique (O1v)
Alston
XVIII.II.336
Wing
V663
