The first and chief groundes of architecture vsed in all the auncient and famous monymentes with a farther & more ample defense vppon the same, than hitherto hath been set out by any other. Published by Iohn Shute, paynter and archytecte.

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Title: The first and chief groundes of architecture vsed in all the auncient and famous monymentes with a farther & more ample defense vppon the same, than hitherto hath been set out by any other. Published by Iohn Shute, paynter and archytecte.
Author: Shute, John, d. 1563.
Publication: Imprinted at London :: In Fletestrete nere to Sainct Dunstans churche by Thomas Marshe,; 1563.
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Subject terms: Architecture -- Early works to 1800.
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EPISTILIVM.

OVer the Capital or hed of the piller ye shal set Epistilium, or Architraue whose marke is A. the height therof shalbe a Modulus, and that height ye shall deuide into .7. par∣tes, one of those ye shall geue vnto Cymatium marked with B. his proiecture is like vnto his height. The other .6. partes ye shal deuide into .12. partes geue .3. vnto the lowest Fascia marked with C geue .4. vnto the second Fascia marked w^t D. & also geue vnto the third Fascia the .5. partes which remaineth, the which is marked w^t E. whose Proiecture or hanging ouer shalbe right and Equall with the thicknes of the piller bynethe aboue the Base. Now vnder∣stand that the Proiecture of these .2. highest Fascias shalbe so muche as the piller is diminished vpon the one side vnder the Capitall the which is the twelfthe part of the diameter, the which part you shall deuide into .9. partes, geue .5. vnto the highest Fascia, marked with E. for his Proiecture, the other .4. partes shal serue for the Proiecture of the middle most Fascia marked with D. the lowest Fascia, findeth his owne Proiecture as before is rehersed.