Mazes and Labyrinths: A General Account of Their History and DevelopmentMatthews, W. H.
History
Mazes and Labyrinths: A General Account of Their History and Development
Matthews, W. H.
Labyrinths; Maze gardens
(Italian examples.)
(ii) PARTICULAR LOCALITIES
CAMPI, P. M. "Dell' Hist. Eccles. di Piacenza," 1651-62.
(S. Savino, Placentia.)
CIAMPINI, G. G. "Vetera Monimenta," 1690-9, Vol. II, pl. 2.
(S. Michele Maggiore, Pavia.)
GÉRUZEZ, J. B. F. "Descrip. Hist. et Stat. de la Ville de Rheims,"
1817, Vol. I, p. 316.
(Rheims Cathedral. "Penitential" theory of church labyrinths.)
DEBRAY, M. "Notice sur la Cathédrale d'Arras," 1829.
WALLET, E. "Descrip. d'une Crypte et d'un Pavé mosaïque de l'Église
Saint Bertin à St. Orner," 1834.
DAIRE, L. F. "Histoire de la Ville d'Amiens," 1782, Vol. II, p. 92.
(Amiens Cathedral.)
TURNER, DAWSON. "Tour in Normandy," 1820, Vol. II, pp. 206-7.
(Caen. Guard-Chamber of Abbey.)
AUBER, C. A. "Histoire de la Cathédrale de Poitiers," 1849, Vol. I,
Pl. I, Fig. 6.
(Poitiers Cathedral. Mural sketch.)
DIDRON, A. N. "Voyage Archéologique dans la Grèce chrétienne," in
_Annales Archéologiques_, Vol. I, 1844, p. 177.
(Labyrinth figure in Convent of St. Barlaam.)
ROBOLOTTI, F. "Dei Documenti Storiei Litterarj di Cremona," 1857,
Tav. II.
(Cremona Cathedral.)
PRÉVOST, M., in _Révue Archéologique_ IV, 1848, and VIII, 1851-2, pp.
566-7.
(Church of Reparatus, Orléansville, Algeria.)
DOUBLET DE BOISTHIBAULT, in _Révue Archéologique_, VIII, 1851-2, pp.
437-47.
(Chartres Cathedral.)
AUS'M WEERTH, E. "Mosaikboden in St. Gereon zu Cöln," 1874.
(Churches in Cologne and Pavia.)
RUSKIN, J. "Fors Clavigera," Fors 23. (Lucca.)
_Proceedings of Architectural Societies of Northampton, York, etc._
Vols. XIX-XX, 1887-8.
(Church at Alkborough.)
_The Builder_, Vol. XVI, 1855, p. 90.
(Notre Dame de la Treille, Lille.)
_Annales Archéologiques_, Vol. XVI, 1855, p. 211.
(Notre Dame de la Treille, Lille.)
_Manuscript. Bibliothèque Barberini_, XLIV, p. 35.
(Pavia.)
_Manuscript. Villard de Honnecourt._ "Album," ed. by J. B. A. Lassus,
1858, Plate XIII.
(Chartres.)
VI. HEDGE MAZES, FLORAL LABYRINTHS, ETC.
(i) CLASSICAL REFERENCES
(Roman Topiary Work and Ornamental Gardening)
PLINY. "Hist. Nat.," XV. 30; XVI. 33; XXXVI. 13.
PLINY THE YOUNGER. Epist. V. 6.
(ii) GREAT BRITAIN (GENERAL)
HYLL, T. (_Didymus Mountayne._) "The Profitable Art of Gardening,"
3rd edition, 1579, pp. 9, 15.
ISLIP, A. "The Orchard and the Garden," 1602, p. 48.
(Gathered from Dutch and French sources.)
LAWSON, W. "A New Orchard and Garden," 1631.
(Afterwards embodied in K. MARKHAM'S "A New Way to Get Wealth,"
1648, etc.)
PARKINSON, J. "Paradisus in soli," 1629, Ch. II.
MEAGER, L. "The Compleat English Gardener," _circ._ 1685.
_Harley Manuscripts._ Brit. Mus. Harl. 5308 (71, a, 12).
(A seventeenth-century gardener's manuscript book, with two
mazes.)
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