Fortifications: Studies of Defensive Walls
A truncated heading on how to build a work, beside two fortification sketches
A top heading in mirror-script begins 'In what way one should make a …', and a second heading reads simply 'Fortifications.' Two ink sketches accompany the notes: an upper study of a crenellated wall or parapet combining plan and elevation, and a lower rounded structure with hatched courses that reads as a scarped bastion or battered wall base. The transcribed heading is truncated, and the drawings bear no further transcribed text.
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Heading: how a fortification should be made
The page opens with an unfinished instruction, 'In what way one should make a …', followed by a separate heading, 'Fortifications.' The intended subject is a defensive work, but the note breaks off in the transcription before naming it.
Sketches of a wall and a rounded bastion
An upper drawing shows a crenellated wall or parapet in combined plan and elevation. A lower drawing shows a rounded, hatched structure that reads as a scarped bastion or battered wall base.