CHAPTER XVII — Critical Commentary & Notes

On the Site of the Triglyphs and the Union of All the Preceding Parts in the Temple Portal Called Porta Speciosa (Plate 0185).

Historical & Mathematical Commentary

  • Paganini 1509 Plate Referenced: Folio 0185 (0185.rst, 0185.g1.png) is the magnificent full-page woodcut inscribed PORTA TEMPLI DOMINI DICTA SPECIOSA (“The Gate of the Lord’s Temple Called Beautiful”, referencing Acts 3:2 and Ezekiel 40–41), showing the complete portal elevation flanked by Corinthian/composite columns on tall stylobates supporting the three-fascia epistyle, carved frieze, dentil cornice, and triangular pediment.

  • Pacioli Day and Night at Paganino de’ Paganini’s Printing Presses (May 1509): Notice Pacioli's vivid snapshot on Folio 0079 (f. 32r): “Però che de continuo dì e nocte me conviene in su li torcoli e lor calcographi a governar l’opere nostre con tutta diligentia comme se richiede”—standing day and night beside Paganini’s presses and woodcutters in Venice in May 1509 as both the Latin Euclid and De Divina Proportione were being printed!

Constantin Winterberg’s Commentary (1889 Edition)

  • Winterberg Footnotes 1–2 (Arch. Cap. XVII, p. 330): (1) Compare the Porta Speciosa plate at the end of the treatise (Paganini Folio 0185, 0185.g1.png). (2) Compare Chapters XIV and XV on the epistyle and frieze. (Winterberg Fussnoten 1–2 (Arch. Cap. XVII, S. 330): 1) Vgl. betr. Fig. a. Ende des Tractats. 2) cfr. Cap. XIV, XV.)

Philological and Folio Apparatus

  • 1509 Paganini Witness Folios: 0079 (f. 32r–f. 32r)

  • Winterberg 1889 Italian Source: winterberg/02_architectura_italian/017_cap_XVII.txt

  • Winterberg 1889 German Source: winterberg/04_architectura_german/017_cap_XVII.txt

  • Marginal Woodcut Diagrams: 0 figure(s) extracted from the 1509 Venice witness.