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IV. On the Foundation Stone of the original Church of St. Mark at Venice; with some Remarks on the Ceremony of laying Foundation Stones in Ecclesiastical Edifices: By Francis Douce, Esq. F.S.A.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2012

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I beg leave to solicit the attention of the Society to a very singular, and I believe unique article of its kind. It is the foundation Stone of the original Church of Saint Mark at Venice.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1836

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page 216 note a Brissonius de formulis populi Romani, p. 104. Rosini Antiq. Rom. 1. ii. cap. 2. Pitisci Lexic. Antiq. Rom. v. dedicare; and particularly Laurentii Polymathia, p. 194. Struvi Antiq. Rom. cap. xi.

page 217 note b Tacit. Hist. lib. iv. cap. 53.

page 217 note c Sueton. Vesp. cap. viii.

page 217 note d Durandi Rationale Divin. Officiorum, cap. i.

page 217 note e Inscript. p. xxxix. n. 5.

page 217 note f Matt. vii.

page 217 note g Psalm cxxxi.

page 218 note g Hospinian de Templis, p. 73.

page 220 note h L'Art de Verifier les Dates. Palatii fasti Ducales, 1696, 4to. Albrizzi Forestiere illuminato intorno le cose della citta di Venetia, 1740, 8vo.

page 220 note i The account of his translation in the Vatican library says, “ Jacebat autem beatum corpus undique circumdatum chlamyde serica et positum resupinum, habens à capite usque ad pedes sigiila imposita per ea loca, quibus ora chlamydis desuper jungebantur.”

page 220 note k Sansovino, Venetia nobilissima, 1604, 4to. This writer usually follows Sabellicus, whose character as a faithful historian has often been called in question. Both these persons have stated, that the first stone of St. Mark's church was laid by the Doge Justiniano Particiaco, but the stone before us at once demolishes the mistake.

page 221 note l De Ayala, Pictor Christianus eruditus, Madrid, 1730, folio, p. 260.

page 222 note m Id. p. 261.

page 222 note n Revel, iv. 8.