THE EARLY AND CLASSIC GOTHIC STYLE C. II50-C. 1250

We are fortunate in possessing at least one even more complete
record of the personality and work of a Gothic architect, a notebook,
or rather textbook, prepared about 123 5 by Villard de Honnecourt, an
architect from the Cambrai region of Northern France. This text-

23. ANOTHER CISTERCIAN PLAN, AND A DISCIPLE ON THE MOUNT OP
OLIVES. FROM VILLARD DE HONNECOURT*S TEXTBOOK, f. 1235,
book, preserved at the National Library in Paris, is an eminently per-
sonal document. Villard addresses his pupils* He promises them tuition
in masonry and carpentry, drawing of architecture and figures, and
geometry. Of all this the book contains examples, drawn and briefly
described. It is invaluable as a source of information on the methods
and attitude of the isth century. Villard, although an architect, draws
a Crucifixion, a Madonna, and figures of the sleeping disciples as they