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| Title | The story of Nuremberg |
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| Publisher | J. M. Dent & Co. |
| Date | 1899 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 303 pages; 18 cm |
| Original Item Location | DD901.N93 H4 1899 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1684865~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
| Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
| Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
| Identifier | exotic_201304_001 |
| Title | Page 127 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_135.jpg |
| Transcript | The Castle, Walls and Fortifie The low stout pillars which support the vaulting correspond in their ornamentation with that of the lower chapel. On the hexagonal capitals of one we find four of the familiar mediaeval masks, whilst on both of them the sculptured foliage and basket- work recall that of the Margaret Chapel. In the wall which separates the vestibule from the Castle a small connecting staircase leads up to a platform, which opens out in two arches towards the chapel and probably formed the Imperial oratt It is in immediate connection with the upper rooms of the Castle by means of a Gothic door which has replaced a romancsque gateway. Thus the Emperor could easily reach his seat in the chapel from the Ca nding three steps, one arrives through a broad archway at the raised choir, which also resembles the Margaret Chapel in its ornamentation. But the most striking and distinctive feature of the Kaiserkapelle, which gives it its characteristically light and graceful apj e four slender columns of white marble, with richly decorated capitals and bases, which support the vaulting. One of the columns is built of two pieces. An unwrought ring covers the seam. 1 ose the legend that, at the time when the chapel was building, the Devil, who lustt >ul of the . wagered him that he would bring these four pillars from Mil : than the priest could read the Mass. The priest, who had a glib tongue, cheerfully undertook the The Devil was quick, but the cl lain was quicker. The Devil had already broi three columns, and the fourth was close at hand, when the nimble priest s So infuri- M his wager that he flung down the pillar. I on the 127 |