Mechanical devices, hatched solids and radiating figures
Wheeled crank mechanisms and starburst line studies; page untranscribed
No transcription accompanies this spread; the bundle records only that each folio bears figures. The right leaf 262r shows small mechanisms built around circular wheels with cranked arms and connecting rods; the left leaf 257v carries a heavily hatched block or wedge drawn in perspective, together with several radiating star-like bursts of lines and a spiky rosette. Passages of mirror-script surround the drawings but are not transcribed here.
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Wheeled crank mechanisms
The right-hand leaf carries small pen studies of mechanisms built around circular wheels with cranked arms and connecting rods. The devices are lightly drawn and unlabelled, and their exact purpose is not stated in the bundle.
Hatched solid and radiating line-bursts
The left leaf shows a wedge or block in perspective worked up with dense shading, beside several centres from which straight lines radiate in star-like bursts, and a spiky rosette. These radiating figures are drawn without accompanying transcription and their precise subject is uncertain.