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 98 DESCRIPTION OF THE ANCIENT PLAN three steps only- The step is iiiterru])ted in the middle, as if a passage was there to a " confessionary" or crypt beneath the altar, bnt no such place is indicated by Avriting. In front of the platform an enclosure is screened off for a choir, chorus,'" but no seats or desks are drawn. It has one door towards the west and two towards the east. The eastern screen is near the font, and a bench phaced between the two doors may serve for the convenience of those who assisted at the baptis- mal service. On the whole, seventeen altars are marked in the plan. The SACRisTy^. The saciisty, which is exactly of the same size as the south transept, consists of a building of two stories, erected on one side in contact with the east wall of the southern transept, and on the other against the presbytery. The lower story or sacristy proper,  suhiiis sacratorinm^' contains presses, chests, and benches : there is a large table in the middle for setting out the sacred vessels, " inensa mnciornm vasorumJ' In the south-east corner there is a stove, as the priests have to re- main here a long time in winter for putting on their habili- ments. In the upper story are kept the ecclesiastical vest- ments, "supra vestium ecclesice repositlo!' From the sacristy below a long passage leads to a small house, where the sacra- mental bread is baked for the use of the church, and oil is ])i'epared for lighting the church, " domus ad prceparandum jjanem saiictnm ef oJcuni cxprhuendiim!' Here are delineated a lire-place, oven, table, and benches. Library and Scriptorium. On the north side of the presbytery is a building which in its plan and dimensions corresponds exactly with the sacristy, and abuts on the eastern side of the north transept in the same manner as the latter does against the south transept. It also consists of two stories. The lower story is arranged for a scriptorium, or writing room, " infra sedes scribeiitium." It is furnished with a large table in the centre, and seven writing desks placed against the walls, which are lighted by six A^indows^ The upper story serves as a depository for the <1 Tliis and the following articles are ^ The glass windows, fenestrce vHrcs, of freely translated from Keller, with the few the Scriptoriiini, are mentioned hy Ekke- cxccptions which I have marked as they liardus, cap. iii. G. p. 53. occur, and with the addition of the notes.