claustra

Et dicit Isidorus, quòd pernicibus equis claustra Alexandri rupibus

The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

Et dicit Isidorus, qu騞 pernicibus equis claustra Alexandri rupibus

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

A pierced claustra-work wall, creating an artificial frontier between a load-bearing wall and a peripheral gallery, and allowing light to pass through, with the play of light and shade, dancing to the rhythm of the sun as the day unfolds from dawn to dusk, is of unsurpassable beauty.

Chapter 6 1995

Fig. 221: Principle types of claustra used on the project for the room windows facing the "shanza" and for the ventilation of the sanitary block.

Chapter 7 1995

But it is also in chain corners, cornice ornamentations, the worked reveals of openings, in the building of imaginatively shaped claustra-work, as in the great fired brick tradition, that the compressed earth block emerges as a decorative material par excellence.

Chapter 6 1995

Blocks can be used for facing floors and walls, for decoration, for claustra work, for interlocking building systems, etc.

Chapter 7 1995

Fig. 158: Simple claustra-work designs with cries-cross motifs (full and half blocks) or the woven effect of stretchers with vertical blocks.

Chapter 6 1995

"I find this one claustra," said Dalmatica with a flicker of — irony?

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

[745] Alexandria may well be called the key, claustra, of Egypt, which was the granary of Rome.

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 10: Vespasian Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Destruxit quidem claustra inferni, et subvertit potentias diaboli.

The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book Various