Index: quality of shadows and lights, chapters 640-663
Further chapter headings of the fifth part on the darkness of shadows, deceptions of the eye, and derived light.
A table-of-contents leaf of the Codex Urbinas listing chapter headings 640 to 663 with cross-references to the leaves where each is treated. The entries treat which body takes the darkest shadow, the quality and degree of darkness of shadows, and where shadows and lights deceive the painter's judgement. It also includes a precept of painting (643), the shadow of the greenery of meadows (642), and the qualities of shadows, lights and colours, closing with derived light.
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Quality and darkness of shadows; deceptions of judgement
Headings 640 to 652 treat which body takes the darkest shadow, the quality of the darkness of shadows (641), the greater or lesser darkness of shadows (648), and where shadows and lights deceive the judgement that pronounces on their darkness (649-650).
A precept of painting; the shadow of meadow greenery
Among the entries are a precept of painting (643) and the shadow of the greenery of meadows (642), together with shadows that do not match the illuminated part (644) and how shadows appear over long distance (646).
Derived light and lights tinting the countryside
The closing headings 659 to 663 treat lights in general, lights and shadows and their colours, lights and shadows that tint the surfaces of the countryside with themselves (661), and derived light (662).