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THe body of ye pillor shalbe .8.½ Diameters in height, ye which are drawen ouerthwart the pillor Now as touching the diminishing of the pillor aboue ye shall begin thus vppon the third Diameter there ye shal trie the middle of the pillor vnder the Capi∣tal. Then deuid the thicknes of your pillor into .6. partes that is .3. on eche side of ye middle of the pillor and ye shall sette .5. suche partes for the thicknes of the pillor vnder the Capitall,
which shalbe .2. and a halfe on eche side of the pillors myddel, from the which thiknes of the pil∣lor vnder the Capitall drawe both the sides downe wardes perpendiculerly vppon the thirde Diameter wheron ye shall make a half cyrcle so greate as it maye be within the Diameter or thiknes of the pillor and it shall make on eche side a crosse ouer the perpendiculer line, measure from the crosses downewardes euen vpon the strike of the half cyrcle or compas to the ouerth∣wart strike vpon the third Diameter & deuide it into .6. partes, making .6. lines crossing ouer the half cyrcle. And ye shall begin to drawe from the line marked .2. in the halfe cyrcle vnto the ouerthwart line at the toppe of the pillor marked with .2. and also from the line of the halfe cyr∣cle .3. drawe vpwardes perpendiculerly to the ouerthwarte strike marked with .3. and so drawe vpwardes from 4. to the ouerthwarte line marked .4. and so from .5. to .5. and also perpendicu∣lerly drawe from 6. to .6. Then take a rule and drawe from Diameter vnto Diameter downe∣wardes, closing vp ye side of the pillor as you may perceue by your figure, for I haue drawen & closed the one side of the pillor, and the other side I haue lefte open that ye should plainely per∣ceiue the working therof, the height of the Diameter, vnder the Capitall. ye shall deuide into 12. partes the higest part shalbe deuided into .3 equall partes, wherof ye shal geue .2. vnto Astra∣galus, marked with L. and the third part shalbe geuen to the edge or Senta, which is marked with M. Also an other litle square edge, which lieth vpon the Base being at the lowest parte of Scapus shalbe in height like vnto Astragalus, at the top of Scapus. Concerning the garnishing of the body of the pillor or Scapus, which oure authour calleth Canaliculi and Striges, the anti∣ques haue deuised so many sundry sortes, that herin the beawtye of them cannot be expressed. But amonge all other in Pantheon, is a pillor thus deuided. Ther be Canaliculi, round abought the pillor .24. in number, and eache of them in deuided into 9. partes, of the whiche partes .4. is geuen vnto that, whiche oure authore nameth Stryges, vpon the which are made vpright in the middle therof Astragali, whose bredthe is .2. of those .4. partes, the other .2. partes are lefte for Stryges. So that vpō eache side of the Astragali, is left one part. The other .5. partes are left for Canaliculi, the which are hollowe inwardes. There is an other pillor, the which standeth in Basilia del foro transitorio, in Rome, the which is made much after one fashion but that the Architect hath made his Canaliculi, somwhat biggar or largar. And that measure is thus. The pillor rounde about shalbe deuided into .28. or .32. partes The occasion wherfore the number of those doth differ, is for the placinge of the pillor standing farre or nighe vnto the eye, for if this piller stande farre from the eye, there shalbe in number .24. and at the most but .26. And if the pillor standeth nigh vnto the eye, there shalbe in number .28. or .30. and at the moste, they made 32. rounde about the pillor. Nowe eche of those partes shalbe deuided into .3. partes, let .2. of those partes be geuen to Canaliculi, the thirde parte ye shal deuide into .4. partes wherof geue .2. vnto Astragalus, and the other .2. that remaine, geue vnto the Strigeus, that stande on eche side of the Astragalus, the bredthe of eche of them is a parte, as ye may perceiue by this Ichnographia the whiche figure is and standeth here betwene your 2. pillors being your parfaicte ground of the bodye of the pillor or Scapus, whiche is marked with N. Thus finishinge the measures, the Prouctures shalbe as is before declared in making of the other pillors.