Wares to make, a paste recipe, and articulated levers
A memorandum of objects and colouring recipes beside jointed mechanical linkages
The right-hand text is a memorandum of wares to be made — knife handles, chessboards, salt-cellars for summer, pen-cases, boxes, small antique vases, neck pendants, one-piece lanterns, small cabinets, and inlay caskets with panels like jasper. It continues with a recipe for a 'mistura' (a moulding composition) mixed with lamp-black, to be ground and remixed with fresh composition once dry, followed by colour recipes: saffron for yellow, pezzola and verdigris for blue, dried powdered wild poppies for red, and fresh broom-flowers for floral tints. Across the sheet are pen and pencil sketches of articulated rod-and-lever linkages; one tie-rod is labelled a and 'a fermo' (made fast), and a pencil figure is annotated 'buffalo hide'.
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Memorandum of wares, a moulding paste, and colours
A list of objects to be produced (knife handles, chessboards, summer salt-cellars, pen-cases, boxes, antique vases, neck pendants, one-piece lanterns, cabinets, inlay caskets) is followed by a recipe for a 'mistura' with lamp-black, ground and remixed once dry, and by colour recipes keyed to saffron, pezzola with verdigris, dried poppies, and broom-flowers.
Tie-rod labelled a, made fast
A tension member (tirante) drawn low on the sheet is lettered a and marked 'a fermo' — fixed or made fast at that point.
Pencil figure annotated 'buffalo hide'
A related pencil figure carries the note 'buffalo hide' (coio di bufolo), the leather evidently intended to bind or sheathe a part of the mechanism.
Articulated rod-and-lever linkages
Several jointed linkages of rods and levers are drawn in pen and pencil across the centre and lower half of the sheet, studies of how hinged members transmit and change motion.