Relief Sketch of Hills around La Verruca (Dolorosa Veruca)
Red-chalk topographic view of a hilly river valley with place-name labels
A red-chalk drawing gives a relief, bird's-eye view of mountainous terrain furrowed by ridges and folds of high ground, with a broad valley or watercourse threading down the center. Faint annotations scattered over the hills label localities, including the fortress hill named in the transcription as "Dolorosa Veruca" (La Verruca, in the Pisan hills). The sheet belongs to the codex's topographic studies of the Arno-valley region. Further handwritten notes are present on the drawing beyond the single caption transcribed here.
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Relief view of a hilly river valley
Red chalk models a range of ridges and folds of high ground running down the sheet, with a broad valley or watercourse threading between them. The treatment is that of a topographic relief map rather than a picturesque scene, consistent with the codex's Arno-valley surveys.
Place-name labels including La Verruca
Faint letters and names are written among the hills to identify places on the terrain. The transcribed caption reads the markers m, m, qu together with the name Dolorosa Veruca (La Verruca).