Index of chapters: light, shade, colour and perspective
Close of the table on shadowed bodies, reflected light and perspective
This index page lists the closing chapters of the treatise's section on light and shade, each heading keyed to a numbered leaf (a car.). The entries run from the human body that turns to receive one light from many sides, through the shadow and light of shadowed bodies, which shadow is darkest, the boundaries of bodies and the imitation of colour at any distance, to reflected light and perspective. The leaf is a clean scribal table of contents in Melzi's compilation, its lower half left blank.
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Shadowed bodies, the darkest shadow and reflected light
The table gathers Leonardo's chapters on how bodies take light and shade: the shadow and light of shadowed bodies, bodies lit by the air without the sun, which shadow is darker, and reflected light. Precepts of light and of shadow accompany them, and each heading points the reader on to a numbered leaf.
Imitation of colour at any distance and perspective
Further entries concern the imitation of colours at any distance, the boundaries of bodies, and a chapter on perspective. Together they fix the painter's rules for rendering colour, edge and depth.