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Author: Ladina Naegeli

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For my research I wanted to concentrate on the structure of the book more than a similar content. An added difficulty was that the book ‘vocabularium architecturae aedificatoriae’ covers almost every architectural topic – since it is a dictionary. For these reasons I mostly searched for different ‘vocabulariums’ and lexicons/dictionaries instead of specific topics. In…

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The book discussed in the following paragraph has the full title: Vocabularium architecturae aedificatoriae – authore Carlo d’Aquino – societatis Jesu – Romae, MDCCXXXIV (1734), Antonii de Rubies, in via Seminarii Romani – superiorum permissu. It is a lexicon with the ABC of architectural words and each of them is described shortly. As mentioned in…

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Carlo D’Aquino – vocabularium architecturae aedificatoriae I chose the titel page because it is the first page that stood out to me and because of it’s interesting composition. The second page (p. 153) captured me with it’s small but detailed print at the bottom. Amazingly the print was even cleaner and better conserved in the…

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