The regular architect: or the general rule of the five orders of architecture of M. Giacomo Barozzio Da Vignola. With a new addition of Michael Angelo Buonaroti. / Rendred into English from the original Italian, and explained, by John Leeke student and teacher of the mathematicks, for the use and benefit of free masons, carpenters, joyners, carvers, painters, bricklayers, plaisterers: in general for all ingenious persons that are concerned in the famous art of building.

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Finding no Tuscan order amonge the antiquities of Rome, from whence J might haue formed a rule as J have found in the other foure orders; the Dorick, Ionick, Corinthia, & Comparita, J have taken the authoritie of Ʋitruvius in his fourth booke & seventh Chapter, where he Sayes, that the Tuscan Columne ought to be in height with the base and Capital Seven times his owne diameter or thicknes In the rest of the ornaments namely the Architrave Fries and Cornice, it is convenient to observe the rule, which J have found in the other orders, that is, that the Architrave Frise and Cornice may be the fourth parte of the height of the Columne, which is 14 modules with the Base, and Capital, as is Seene set downe by numbers; so also the Architrave, Frise and Cornice Shalbe 3½ modules, which is the fourt^h parte of 14, the particular members shalbe exactly Set downe in their proper place,

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Being to make the Tuscan order with out a pede¦stal, the whole height Shalbe divided into 17 ½ part^es and each of those partes shalbe called a Module, which againe wee divide into 12 equal partes, and by these measures at the Saied order is formed with every particular member thereof, as is Seene in the designe Set downe both in whole numbers and fractions

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But being to make the Saied order with a pedestal the whole height is to be divided— into 22 partes and ⅙ which is done, because the pedestal requires to be in height the third parte of his Columne with Base and Capital, which being 14 modul^es, the third parte is 4 modules and ⅔ which added to 17 modules and ½ make together 22 modules and ⅙

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Although a pedestal is sildome made to the Tuscan order, yet haue I put it here in designe to follow order, giving you ^to understand that in the five orders I have observed it for a general, and that the pedestals with their ornaments ought to be a third parte of their Columne with Base and Capital, as al the ornaments aboue, that is to Say, the Architruve Frise and Cornice ought to be a fourth parte of the Same, Form which being vnderstood & presuposed there ariseth this great facilitie in the worke that being to make any of these five orders after the height which it ought to have ^is determined it is to be divided into 19 partes with its ornaments (then 3 partes being left aboue for the Architruve and 4 below for the pedestal, the 12 partes remaning are for the height of the Columne with the Base & Capital, which being taken, & making the division of the modules, according as it shalbe either Corinthia or Dorick or the other orders, & then the whole order is made by that module divided into its partes, as Shalbe Seene in its due place; A the Body or Shafe of the Columne: B: Cincta Regula or list: C: Torus: D: the Blinth-E-listello a name most general and vsed in differently in al the like members whether the be lesser or greater F Cimatum. G the Pedestal H listelo I the Blinth of the Pedestal,

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Hauing before described in general ^the principal measures for drawing the Tuscane order, J have here and in the foregoing page, designed the partes in great to the ende that you; may See Particularly, the division of every one of the Smalest partes, together with their project∣ture and that the clearenesse of the designe with the numbers adjoyned may be Sufficient to mak you understand the thing without many words, as any one may easily know of himselfe with Smale consideration

A. Ouolo. B. Rundel. C. Listello. or. Regula. D. Corona or Dropstone. E. Listetto. F. Cymatium G. Frise H. Facia or List of the Architrave I. Architrave K Chimatium or list of the Abacus L Abacus M Echinus N List, O Frise of the Capital, P Astragal Q Coller of the Columne R the Body of the Columne