. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c, with their derivations . ad,by ladies, in the Middle Ages. (See Fig. 704.) Volumen, R. {volvo, to roll). A very long,narrow sheet made of strips of papyrus gluedtogether. This sheet was gradually rolled rounda wooden cylinder as the reader perused whatwas written on it, an operation expressed bythe term ezolvere volumen. When
. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c, with their derivations . ad,by ladies, in the Middle Ages. (See Fig. 704.) Volumen, R. {volvo, to roll). A very long,narrow sheet made of strips of papyrus gluedtogether. This sheet was gradually rolled rounda wooden cylinder as the reader perused whatwas written on it, an operation expressed bythe term ezolvere volumen. When a work wasof considerable length, each book or chapterwas rolled round a separate stick or woodencylinder, so that a single volume {volumen)consisted of a large number of rolls. Volupere, O. E. A womans cap or night-cap. The tapes of her white volufiere {Chaucer, The Millers Tale.) Volute, Arch, {volvo, to roll), (i) The spiralscroll peculiarly distinguishing the capital in theIonic order. (Fig. 694.) (2) The small volutesof the Corinthian capital which are placed atthe four angles of the abacus; they are calledJielkes majores, while the volutes beneath the cinque-foils are called hcUccs iiiinores. (SeeHelix.) Vomer, Vomis, R. A plough-share; it re-sembled almost exactly our modern Fig. 694. Ionic Volute. Vomitoria, R. (voiuo, to discharge). Doorsin a theatre or amphitheatre opening on thecorridors of the building, or on to the scales
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