Latin declensions, with three red-chalk mechanical figures
The five noun declensions and model words; figures drawn in red chalk, one gone over in pen
The upper sheet carries three figures drawn in red chalk, the central one reinforced in pen, showing bracketed beams and blocks of a built mechanism; a small pen vortex at the fore-edge margin continues the water studies of the neighbouring leaves. Inverted at the foot of the leaf, a pen exercise sets out the five Latin noun declensions with their genitive endings and model words — musae, domini, patris, visus and cornu, rei — and first-declension nouns ending in -ae, -as, -es and -am. The transcription supplies only this grammatical text.
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Three red-chalk mechanical figures
The upper sheet carries three figures drawn in red chalk, the central one reinforced in pen, showing bracketed beams and block elements of a built mechanism. No text accompanies them in the transcription.
The five Latin declensions and their endings
Inverted at the foot of the leaf, a pen exercise sets out the five noun declensions with their genitive endings and model words: musae, domini, patris, visus and cornu, rei. It adds first-declension nouns ending in -ae, -as, -es and -am, such as poeta, Aeneas and Anchises.
Small water vortex at the fore-edge
At the right margin a small pen vortex continues the water studies of the surrounding leaves. It is drawn separately from the red-chalk mechanical figures above.