Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle
Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française is a mid-nineteenth-century French architectural dictionary by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, published in Paris by B. Bance in 1854 for architects and students of medieval French building. Its numbered plates show Gothic mouldings, tracery, plans and capitals in fine engraved line, drawn with careful measured profiles and scale bars. A designer could draw on the crisp, precise linework of these details for ornamental borders, gothic lettering frames, or stylised architectural motifs.
