To understand AskAlice better I started off with several very generic search entries. First of them being “Architecture” in all possible search fields. I didn’t expect much since it was a too broad search. To my surprise I found many interesting books (most of them being quite new and modern) and I began to understand…
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Xenotheka_73
For my book, which is a lexicon I chose to search for other lexicons focusing on architecture. A normal book about an architectural topic wouldn’t have made sense for me, because “vocabularium architecturæ ædificatoriæ” touches on nearly every architectural topic, present in the 18. century. First I searched for the name of my book with…
Xenotheka_73
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…
Argument_73
The title “Vocabularium architecturæ ædificatoriæ” could be translated into “Architectur of building architecture”. This book makes it easier for everybody to read or write about architecture. The book is well-ordered from “a” to “z”, like any ordinary dictionary. There aren’t any illustrations for better explanation of words. This would have probably taken up too much…
Argument_73
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…
Greetings_73
I liked the drawing on the main Page and I chose page 128 as an interesting sample to express how the author introduced every new letter in the “Vocabularium”. The book was bigger than I expected, and I thought it would have something on the cover Page, but it didn’t.
Greetings_73
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…