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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42638	The first and second part of counsel and advice to all builders: for the choice of their surveyors, clerks of their works, bricklayers, masons, carpenters, and other workmen therein concerned. As also in respect of their works, materials, and rates thereof. Written by Sr. Balthazar Gerbier, knight.; Counsel and advice to all builders. Parts 1-2.	Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.	1664 (1664)	Wing G554; ESTC R213758	58,457	266

ill grounded reports Furthermore you may gather out of this Treatise a Pozie pleasing to your scent and leave the gleanings which are most proper to Mechanicks concerned therein until a large work with Copper Plates shall have had time to be put forth wherein not only shall be represented in compleat measure the Forms of all Moulding of Orders Columns Ornaments for Doors and Windows Court Houses and Gardinggates and with all some Fronts and Dimensions of Houses both in a City and in the Country Churches Towns Houses and Steeples with all necessary Appurtenances thereunto belonging As also the charges a Builder may be at according unto the extent and height of a Building either made of Stone Brick or mixt You will have no just cause to infer that when the best Building is mentioned according to the Grecian and Roman manner that therefore English Labonrers shall need go with their Buckets to fill them at the Tiber less to the Scaene at Paris to temper their Morter well nor your Surveyors nor Master-Workmen to be vext with things ala-node if they will but observe Rules Dimensions and Forms which are not to be mended less contradicted And as for the number of Epistles which are put to this Manual Anthoni peres once Secretary of State to Philip the second King of Spain was a president for the putting of many Epistles to a Treaty which he Dedicated not onely to Eminent Persons in Spain but also in France and England 't was his Peregrino the main whereof represented a Demolisht Body The scope of this is contrary to that being about Building his was a personal interest this a Publick It 's therefore the more freely offered to a number of Persons who either themselves or friends may have occasion to make use of it It 's freely offered as to the upper so to the lower end of a Table like a fresh gathered Fruit and none of those who are pleased to accept it are craved to Patronize it it being held most unfit for any Authour to crave since no man is bound to answer for faults committed by another A Brief Discourse concerning the three chief Principles of Magnificent Building viz. Solidity Conveniency and Ornament WHereas Building is much minded in these times I thought fit to publish some Principles thereon which may stand the lovers of it instead Yet without spending time and Paper to Note how a Point Line Angle Demi-circle Cube Plint Baze Pedestal Colombe Head Architrave Frize Cornice or Frontispiece must be made and what Dimensions all those several parts a Point excepted must have since all Master-Workmen ought to remember as Schollars their Grammer and Arithmatitions their Table how every Particle must have its just proportion and that the height of Windowes and Doores must be double their breadth and also to be carefull to maintain the due esteem of their Art since its Dimensions and Rules came directly from Heaven when the great Architect and Surveyor of Heaven and Earth prescribed the Rules and particular Orders for the Building of a floating-Pallace Noahs Ark and the glorious matchlesse Temple of Solomon the perfect House of Prayer And therefore such Precedents may serve to convince those who say That a wise-man never ought to put his finger into Morter since there is a necessity for Building especially among Nations who do not or cannot live in Caves and hollow Trees or as the Wilde Indians who have no other Roofs but of Palmito-Leaves nor Wainscot but Bambouses as they call the Poles to which they tye a Woollen Hammac to lye in There are three Capitall Points to be observed by men who intend to Build well VIZ Solidity   Conveniency   Ornament Those who have Marshald the Orders of Colombs to make good the first Point have Ranged the Toscan to be the Supporter of a Building but such an Atlas must stand on a firm Ground not as ill Builders place Colombs either of Brick or Stone like things Patcht or glewed against a Wall and for the most part against the second Story of a Building contrary to the very Gothish Custome who at least did begin their Buttrises from the Ground as if their intent were that the weight of the Colombs should draw down the Wall on the heads of those that passe by Such Builders confound the first and essential point of Building to wit Solidity with Ornament and Conveniency They will make a shew of some thing but misse thereby as ill Bow-men the Mark They may perchance have heard of rare Buildings nay seen the Books of the Italian Architects have the Traditions of Vignola in their Pockets and have heard Lectures on the Art of Architecture which have laid before them the most necessary Rules as also the Origine of the severall Orders of Colombs and Discourses made thereon that the Toscan is as the Hercules so of the Jonic and Corinthian the first of the two to Resemble the Dressing of the Daughters of Jonio who had Twists of Hair on both sides of their Cheeks The Corinthian Heads to represent a Basket with Acante Leaves and the Guttered Colombs the Pleats of Daughter and Womens Cloaths That the Grecians in remembrance of their Victories did Range the Colombs in their Buildings to represent the number of Slaves which they had taken the Grains Beads Drops Pendants Garlands Enterlaced-Knots Fruitage and an infinite number of Ornaments which are put on the Frize to signifie the Spoiles which the Victors had brought away from their Enemies and to preserve the Memory thereof did place them on their Buildings that they might also serve for a true History But none of such Ornaments were ever impediments to the strength or convenience of a Building for they were so handsomly and well contrived as once the Dutchesse of Cheiveruse a French Lady said of the English Females that they had a singular grace to set their Ornaments right and handsomly The Babarians and naked Tapoyers Caripowis Alibis and several Charibdiens do place Pendants in their Nostrils which are proper for the Eares and these hinder not the use of the Lips which ought to be observed by all Builders And as for the inside of Fabricks Builders should in the first place set the Doors Chimnies and Windows as may be most convenient for use Builders ought to be not onely experimented in House-keeping but also good Naturalists to know before they spend time and Materials the required Property to every part of a Building A Doore to be so set as it may not convey the Wind toward the Chimny or Bedstead though opened never so little The Windows to be so placed as that the Fire made in the Chimney may not attract the Aire and Moysture and so prove the unwholesomest part of the Room for those that are near the Fire Which was the main reason why the great Isabella Infanta of Spain King Philip the Seconds Daughter who Governed the Provinces of Brabant Flanders Arthois and Haynault during her many years