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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31035	Vignola, or, The compleat architect shewing in a plain and easie way the rules of the five orders of architecture, viz. Tuscan, Dorick, Ionick, Corinthian, and Composite : whereby any that can but read and understand English may readily learn the proportious [sic] that all members in a building have one unto another / set forth by Mr. James Barozzio of Vignola ; translated into English by Joseph Moxon.; Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura. English	Vignola, 1507-1573.; Moxon, Joseph, 1627-1691.	1673 (1673)	Wing B905; ESTC R37067	13,805	97

REGULA Quinque Ordinum ARCHITECTURAE Aucthore I. B. VIGNOLA Aucta et Emendata per Josephum Moxon LONDINI Ex Officina Josephi Moxon VIGNOLA OR THE COMPLEAT Architect Shewing in a Plain and Easie way the Rules of the Five Orders in ARCHITECTVRE VIZ. TUSCAN DORICK IONICK CORINTHIAN COMPOSITE Whereby any that can but Read and Understand English may readily learn the Proportious that all Members in a Building have one unto another Set forth by Mr. James Barozzio of Vignola Translated into English By Joseph Moxon The Third Edition with Additions 2 Chron. 33 Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God c LONON Printed for Joseph Moxon and sold at his Shop on Ludgate Hill neer Fleet Bridge at the Signe of ATLAS 1673. To the Ingenious Artist I Have here presented you with the Works of Mr. James Barozzio of Vignola in English who for his great Skill and knowledge in the Art of Architecture is much respected and highly applauded among all Artificers throughout Christendome there being few Nations of any note that have not his works translated into their own Language onely we here in England I know not whether it be through carelesness in Artists or else covetousness mind not those things which make other Countries that have nothing else to boast of so famous among their Neighbours Certain I am that England breeds as good wits as other Lands do and would they but shew themselves more forward in commendable Studies would doubtless share with them in their Praises Our Author first collected these things together for his own private use and by the solicitations of many Persons of Worth and Honour did at last though unwillingly consent to make the World for a small price partakers of that which cost him so much labour study and travel And whereas former Authors left their Works uncertain or at least doubtfull to all but their own Nations in respect of the several measures they used as some the Fathom some the Foot some the Span some the Inch of their own particular Country which seldome agrees with the Fathom Foot or Inch of any other Land our Author to avoid that great inconven●ence and certain uncertainty hath reduced all his measures to a convenient and universal measure which is ●alled by the name of a Model the invention whereof hath made the whole Art of Architecture very easie to all Students therein for it is nothing else but the half Diamter of the Column at the lower end thereof as if the whole Diameter should be 10 12 14 or 16 inches then will the half Diameter be 5 6 7 or 8 inches and that is called the Model which Model he divides into 12 equal parts when he frames the Tu●can and Dorick Order and into 18 for the Ionick Corinthian and Composite In the Translation of this Book I have followed so neer as I could the words of our Author unless here and there I have been a little more large thereby endeavouring the better to express his meaning and instruct the young Practitioner I confess the Book was formerly translated by another hand but it was so generally disliked indeed not without cause that I chose rather to take the pains to translate it a new than run the hazzard of discouraging young Artists with those dark and unproper directions Now for the better instructions of such as desire to study this pleasant profitable and commendable Art and yet are disheartned by the strange words used therein I have collected all the hard words together and given you the meaning of them that so when you find your self puzzeled with any word of Art you need but have recourse to this Alphabetical Table and find the explanation of any hard word used in this Book A Abacus the member ma●ked L in number V. Anulets G numb X. Architrave numb I. word Architr Astragaloes B numb XV. B Band B numb IV. Base word Base numb I. C Capital numb I. word Capital Cathetus a line drawn from the top of any thing to the bottom Cimatium L numb V. Composite Order read numb XXV Corinthian Order The name of Columns made after the manner described in numb XIX Cornice numb I word Cornice D Dentils B numb X. Diagonal line a line drawn from the two opposite Angles in a Square E Equilaterial Triangle a Triangle whose sides are all of equal length F Flutes D numb X. Friese numb I. word Friese G Groeves A numb IX Gula or throat F. numb V. I Ichnography the ground or Plot on which any thing is projected Intersection the point where two lines cross one the other Ionick Order The name of Columns made after the manner discribed in numb XII L List C numb V. M Metops D numb X. Model I have just now told you what it is in this Epistle Modilion B numb X. O Overture an arch as is described between the Columns in numb VII Ovolo A numb V. P Pedestal that whereon the Column stands as in numb VI. Perpendicular a line that cuts a second line at right angles is said to be perpendicular to the second line Pilasters the Pillars that stand behind the Columns whereon the Arches rests see numb VII Plinthus D numb IV. Profile see Ichnography Q Quadrant the fourth part of a Circle R Right angles right angles are neither more nor less then square Corners S Scroll the winding figure in numb XVIII is called a Scroll Scotia A numb XV. Semi-circle half the circumference of a circle Spiral line the two outmostlines of the wreathed Column numb XXX are called Spiral lines Swathe the same that Band is T Triglyph D numb X. Tondino B numb V. Torus A B numb XXII Tuscan Order the names of Columns made after the manner described in numb I. V Voluta the same that Scroll is The understanding of this Table is so easie that I shall not need to explain any thing in it that I know of only take notice that where you see a Letter as BC c and numb I. V. X. or the like follow any word that then you are referred to the leaf marked with that number therefore in that leaf seek for the same Letter and the Member that that Letter stands in is called by that name I know some that are already sufficient Artists may think the sleighter of this Book meerly because I have made it plain to common Capacities But if such will but look back upon their own younger endeavours they may perhaps remember the time when themselves would have been glad of any help that might have furthered them in their then-thought tedious and difficult Studies Besides they may also know that it is easier for themselves to know the meaning of plain and easie expressions than for young Students to understand the directions of hard and difficult Instructions Joseph Moxon I BEcause I have not found among the Antiquities of Rome any Tuscan Ornaments from whence I might