Measured survey line with marginal distance notes
Fractions and figures set along a traced line round the page
The sheet is filled with strings of measured lengths written along a faint line that runs down the left margin, across the top, and up the right side, each entry pairing a fraction with an abbreviated unit (li, m, sci, le, g) and a figure. The notes read as successive segments of a surveyed route or perimeter, of the kind the manuscript's dossier associates with the Cesare Borgia campaigns. A short note at the centre gives 320 at 1/2 m degrees. Numbers dominate throughout and no continuous prose is present.
On this page
Measured segments running down the left edge
A traced line carries a string of measured lengths down the left margin, each written as a fraction of a unit followed by a figure - 3/4 li 127, 3/4 li 145, 3/4 m 202 and so on. The units are abbreviated (li, m, sci, me), consistent with an itinerary or boundary run in short measured stretches.
The line continues across the top and up the right side
Along the top edge the figures run from right to left (72 at 1/4 T, 3/4 m 100, 3/8 g 200), and a further sequence climbs the right margin read upside down (3/4 le 240, 7/8 le 200). Together they record successive segments of a single surveyed line.
Each length given as a fraction of a unit
Every entry pairs a fraction (1/2, 3/4, 5/8, 7/8) with an abbreviated unit and a whole number, giving a measured distance in mixed fractions. A short central note reads 320 at 1/2 m degrees.