Domus Transitoria

A place where I will try and finally give a decent shape to the conlang that I have been working on for years... ... and share my obsession with maps, plans, manuscripts, inscriptions, and anything that is old or has writing on it. Conlang: Constructed language

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Géographie, L’Encyclopédie de Diderot, 1751

http://www.planches.eu/planche.php?nom=GEOGRAPHIE&nr=1

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Trilingual Middle Persian-Greek-Parthian inscription of Ardašīr, Ohrmazd and Šāpūr

http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/epigraphy-i

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Caractères de Chymie (Chemical Symbols), L’Encyclopédie de Diderot, 1752.

http://encyclopédie.eu/index.php/47800049-CHYMIE

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Semantography (Blissymbolic): A Logical Writing for an Illogical World, C. K. Bliss

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The Topography and Monuments of Ancient Rome, Platner, Samuel Ball, 1911

https://archive.org/details/topographymonume00platiala

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Plan of the ruins of the Imperial Palace on the Palatine Hill, Rome

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Hypothetical reconstruction of the Imperial Palace on the Palatine Hill, Rome

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Excerpt from the Annals of Creation in the Dongba script of Naxi language (Yunnan, China), with translation in Mandarin Chinese

https://www.wdl.org/fr/item/3025/

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Table of obsolete simplified Chinese characters from the abandoned second stage simplification project (1977). 第二次汉子简化方案

http://www.babelstone.co.uk/CJK/N3695.html

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Walter Gropius, Dessau Bauhaus, 1926, Dessau, Germany

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Villa Savoye (Poissy, France), Le Corbusier, 1928 - 1931.

https://www.architypes.net/villa-savoye/

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Plan for the project of M. le Marquis de Ville Franche (Avignon), François Franque, L’Encyclopédie de Diderot et D’Alembert, 1751. https://digital.nls.uk/slezer/engraving.cfm?sl=63

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Plan & elevation of a great Hôtel, Jacques François Blondel, L’Encyclopédie de Diderot et D’Alembert, 1751.

https://digital.nls.uk/slezer/engraving.cfm?sl=63

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Plan & elevation of the project for the Royal Abbey of Panthemont (Paris), François Franque, L’Encyclopédie de Diderot et D’Alembert, 1751.

https://digital.nls.uk/slezer/engraving.cfm?sl=63

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Floor plan of Thirlestane Castle, Scotland

https://digital.nls.uk/slezer/engraving.cfm?sl=63

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Representation of the ideal site according to Chinese geomancy - Feng shui

1. Upper mountain 祖宗山 2. Main mountain 主山 3. Dragon’s entry 入首 4. Head 頭腦 5. Eyebrows 眉砂 6. Strand 明堂 7. Centre of the site 穴 8. Inner tiger 內白虎 9. Outer tiger 外白虎 10. Inner dragon 內青龍 11. Outer dragon 外青龍 12. Front mountain 案山 13. Vassal mountain 朝山 14. Inner water door 內水口 15. Outer water door 外水口

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Sixth report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Berwick, 1915, https://archive.org/stream/sixthreportinven00scot/sixthreportinven00scot#page/n0/mode/1up