Codex Atlanticus106 pages
- Large Excavating Machine and Earth-Moving Weights
- Large Hoisting Machine and Ditch Measurements
- Blank verso, invisible before restoration
- Building-site machines: hoists, a screw press and a domed building
- Hoists, a Screw Conveyor, and Interlocking Locking Beams
- Earth-boring auger, water-raising gear and a lamp
- Leaf recorded as blank before restoration
- Hoisting a great weight and the squaring of triangles
- A geared instrument for digging land-ditches
- Portable bridges to flee or pursue the enemy
- Trestle bridge on light poles, with an arc engine and gears
- Gear Trains, a Bombard Hoist, and Time Reckonings
- The Science of the Crossbow: Force, Load and Range
- Force, Weight and Impetus in the Crossbow
- Transporting a bombard: windlass, cart and timber joints
- Canal dam with a sluice gate raised by a windlass
- Sheet of mechanical devices with weights, hinges and a wall-cladding note
- Canal to Florence: gravel banks and an aqueduct bridge
- The Florence canal: route map and excavation costs
- Triangular Hoist for Raising a Column
- Screw-cutting tools, a weighted wheel and lifting gear
- Dredging crane: a toothed scoop slung from a swinging boom
- Boat-borne dredging machines built around spoked wheels
- The Roman Harbour of Civitavecchia
- Fraction Arithmetic and Methods of Moving Earth
- Index for the Book on Water: Rivers, Currents and Floods
- Studies of screws, levers, pulleys and foundations
- Plans for a Prince's Palace, with Fire-Safe Construction
- Water from a cistern: fall, weirs and orifices
- Lunes and circle-portions; the river Arve near Geneva
- Canal locks and the physics of falling water
- A siphon to carry a river over the mountains
- Raising a Tall Mast, a Screw for Descent, and the Body of the Earth
- Surveying: measuring mountain heights and leveling land
- Mining fortress walls: undermining and sap tunnels
- Reinforced Withy Bundles, and Draining the Piombino Marsh
- Raising the irrigation from Lake Brivio: a canal scheme
- Surveying the Brivio canal to the Travaglia mill
- A Canal Lock, Pyramid Sections, and Notes on Shadows
- Diverting the Arno: floods, channels and the Bisarno cut
- Twin Tipping Cases for a Hoisting Machine
- Large Upright Frame Driven by Twin Screws
- Moving Earth and Heavy Loads: Levers, Carts, Oblique Motion
- The winding of rivers and their straightening into canals
- Two mounted paper fragments, restored blank areas
- Organizing diggers to excavate a mile of ditch
- Digging a ditch: pyramidal gangs and an excavator
- Studies of arched and triangular trusses for wide spans
- Excavating a great ditch: the labour and arithmetic of moving earth
- Calculating the Labour of Digging a Ditch
- Two ways to dig a ditch: a labour-and-earth calculation
- Spring mechanisms, a wheel-lock striker and river pile-work
- Ground plan of a palace quarter served by canals
- River-and-city studies: clean water, portal and plans
- Scouring river beds and fording rivers with wineskin saddle-pads
- Defending the Isonzo: river barriers against the Turks
- Canal-Cutting at Brivio and the Theory of Cast Shadows
- Funding a navigable canal by selling its surplus water
- The San Marco lock-gate, with a 1489 ledger of fines
- Box for excavating a ditch bottom, with fines ledger and tables
- Raising a great tree upright without ropes
- Port of Civitavecchia, church plans, and laws of the balance
- Lattice frameworks and a figure with a ring and trailing lines
- Working a Tower in Water, with Studies of Area Equivalence
- The Arno Diversion: River Bends and Water-Mills
- Large Braced Frame Hoisted by Screws
- Frame Raised by Four Screws
- Tools for Digging, Gravel-Moving and Demolition
- Raising a Column: Pulleys, Beams and the Friction of Loads
- Harbour dredge and wing-lifting flight studies
- Three designs for movable bridges
- Catapults, hoisting cranes and a bridge over deep water
- Underwater Excavation for a Castle Moat
- Rivers, canals and the crossing of rivulets
- Elasticity of bent wood and interlocked timber roof frames
- Harbour works, dredges and pumps
- Earthwork Reckoning for Digging a Ditch
- Machine for Lifting Earth from an Excavation
- Cord-Driven Semicircle Mechanisms and an Interlace Knot
- Survey of the River Adda for the Naviglio Canal
- Excavating and hoisting earth, with figures of an egg-shaped mirror
- Canal and river survey of the Romorantin country
- Canal lock: chamber dimensions and gate mechanism
- Hoisting Machine for Excavating Earth
- Surveying and pile-driving instruments for levelling ground
- Hoisting crane with pulleys and a braced mast
- Concealed underground vault with hidden water supply
- Turning a Ruined Wall into Bastions, Gateways and Gun-lines
- Rivers, eddies, and the Naviglio canal
- Excavating machine and self-dumping earth-box for canal work
- Design of a canal-digging excavator, fully dimensioned
- Canal Works: Locks, Excavation and Siphons
- Passage made under water, drained by a pump
- Gear trains, a column-lifting rig, and a beam-loading rule
- Digging Ditches: Spade-Work, Earth Weights and Gangs
- Organizing Diggers: Barrows, Windlass and Labour Sums
- Earth-moving: filling boxes and excavator schemes
- Improving the great hoist; excavation worker schemes
- Treadwheel hoist worked by ten men
- Decked floats, a segmented rod, and a battlement profile
- Earth-moving machine and the arithmetic of excavation
- Self-tipping excavator cart, with a draft letter
- Letter of self-recommendation to Ludovico Sforza
- Covered Wheeled Bridge Crossing to a Battlemented Wall
- The Naviglio of San Cristoforo, Milan (1509)
- Cloth-cropping machine and a canal for the Wool Guild
Codex Arundel25 pages
- River Courses Between Their Banks in Flood and Low Water
- A Programme of Books on Rivers and Water
- Buoyancy-driven wheel and a list of books on water
- Water's perpetual circulation and a plan for a book on water
- Design notes for an earth-moving excavation machine
- Efficiency defects of the earth-moving wheel machine
- Cracks in walls, splitting vaults, foundations, and earth's strata
- Canals and pile-driving: a red-chalk water study
- The power of the arch: chord, shoulders and where it breaks
- Cracks in walls and the breaking of arches
- Gravity and weights; wheels that raise water from a marsh
- A digger's labor: earth moved by shovelfuls per hour
- Moving houses and canalizing the river at Romorantin
- Route and land survey with measured distances
- Pile-driving forces and the death of ser Piero da Vinci
- How rivers flow, flood, and reshape their banks
- A plan of 'books' on rivers, embankments and the earth's waters
- Water Rising Through the Earth, and a Treatise-Plan on Water
- Notes on a machine for digging and hauling earth
- Structural cracks, drying clay, and the earth's strata
- Notes on canal-making, with a large survey drawing
- Cracks in Walls and the Fracture of Arches
- Reckoning a Labourer's Rate of Moving Earth
- Pile-driving mechanics; the death of Ser Piero da Vinci, 1504
- River erosion and petrification on the Bisarno; a plant study
Codex Forster I3 pages
Codex Forster II2 pages
Codex Forster III7 pages
- Excavating machine with a double pulley for lifting spoil
- Diagram for excavation works with tools a b and n m
- Cutting a groove in the 'grotta' with a toothed rake
- Ground Plan with a Note on Canals Behind the Houses
- Machine for hoisting roof and floor beams
- Canal Lock Gate with Stone Abutments
- Canal Lock Gate with Operating Gear
Codex Madrid I16 pages
- A Giant Auger for Boring Holes in the Ground
- Hauling weights on wheels: line of traction and a twin-nut screw
- Tall hoisting frame and the plan of a cart's wheels
- Loading a bombard onto a cart: Lombard and German methods
- Raising a spar: the level line versus the oblique
- Instrument fitted to a beam's end to raise it with a lever
- Beam that raises itself by rocking on a toothed post
- Rustic military bridge of lashed branches and an endless screw
- Plan for a Treatise on the Screw and its Lever
- The Simple Beam-Balance and a Furrow-Straightening Plough
- Gear-tooth durability and a device to lock a power
- The man-treading wheel: body weight versus force in hoists
- Levelling and Measuring a Tunnel Bored Through a Mountain
- Instrument for Boring a Mountain So Both Bores Meet
- Studies of a heavy beam moved on rollers, wheels, and sledges
- Screw-jacks, wedges, and driving oblique-pointed piles
Codex Madrid II34 pages
- Arno survey, walling costs, and the note of 6 June 1505
- Levelling of the Arno and the excavation works at Piombino
- A Winter Proverb and Sums for the Ditch
- Costing the Excavation of the Fortress Ditch
- Cost of Excavating the Fortress Ditch and Foundations
- Rows of Diggers and the Rising Price of the Ditch by Depth
- Dimensions of the Fortress Ditch and the Files of Diggers
- Stepped Trench: Men Needed to Cast Earth Up by Depth
- Costing the removal of a cylindrical mass of rock
- Oblique cuts of the citadel rock toward the sea
- Why the new citadel walls crack, and shoring the sea front
- Estimating the earthwork: cutting the hill and moat
- Dimensioned section of the hill and moat
- Cost accounts for the fortification
- Masonry of the fortress and moat walls
- Excavation costing for the fortress ditch
- Excavating the ditch of Monte a Santa Maria in live rock
- Piombino Fortifications: Parapet, Covered Way, and Costs
- Cost and construction of the Pistoia canal
- Founding a Sea-Wall: Lowering Caissons onto the Rock
- Founding in the Sea, and the Port of Piombino
- A Plain Fortress of Double Walls Filled with Earth
- Staggered Embrasures and an Ideal Square Fortified Town
- Towers in Deep Water, Counter-Mines and Ditches
- Inner Works of a Keep and Mortar-Proof Bastions
- The Castellan's Keep: Storerooms, Powder Store and Water Control
- The Common Parts of a Fortress: Members One Through Sixteen
- Corner Turrets, the Sally-Port, and Testing Foundations
- The Seven Particular Parts: Ditch Profiles and the Mid-Ditch Wall
- The Inner Pit, Ravelins and Scarped Turrets of the Ditch
- Fortress Walls, Foundations and the Design of Gates
- Firing the Mould, Lifting the Cope, the Core and the Casting Pit
- Device for carrying and lowering the horse-mould cover
- Removing the horse-mould cover and carrying it away
Paris Manuscript A1 pages
Paris Manuscript B27 pages
- Fortification Plans: Ravelin, Square Tower and Siege Gallery
- Falarica engines and a caisson for emptying a harbour
- The ideal city: overall view and two-level stairs
- Palaces of the ideal city and its two-level streets
- Why an Arch Holds, and a Raised Garden
- Machine for raising columns, and how an arch loads its columns
- Constructing a nonagon; a cross-lap timber joint and river-bank roads
- Canals and locks beneath the city's palaces
- Canals for the city drawn from the Ticino
- The dolabra, the bipennis and earth-working tools
- Mud sledge, ditch-emptying crane and rivellino plan
- Rope-ladder wall assault, rough-terrain sledge and auger
- River spur, weir facing, a stone auger, and fast earthworks
- Preaching theater, basilica plans, and a Latin-cross church
- On weights, a German lance-barrier, and diverting rivers to ford them
- Wicker boats and skin-float pontoons for crossing rivers
- Releasing a Flood of Water on an Army and City Walls
- Surveying Levels, Wall-Piling and an Arched Gallery Mouth
- Pile foundations and a wall to resist river banks
- Demolition tools, a double saw and a leveling sight
- Tools for excavating and founding buildings
- Driving piles and hurling poison powder at enemy galleys
- Pile drivers and building a bastion by night
- Worm-and-wheel gear turning a fork; a ditch-digging note
- Siege mining: scoppietti poles, a deceiving tunnel, and bastions
- Flying-machine controls and river-barrier devices
- Furnace, riverbank palisade, and a water-and-air bellows
Paris Manuscript C2 pages
Paris Manuscript E2 pages
Paris Manuscript F12 pages
- Draining coastal ponds with artificial eddies and siphons
- Carrying mountain soil into marshes to reclaim the valleys
- Drying sea-bordering ponds with siphons and eddy machines
- Water flow through a nozzle and an eddy-driven machine
- On eddies and their utility
- Water eddies for scouring and reclaiming a canal
- Running water falling into stagnant water over a channel
- Deepening a canal, and a movable weir that scours the bed
- Machine for Hauling a Tree Trunk from the Water
- Floating a Great Weight onto a Barge by Draining a Canal
- How struck water divides: eddies, angles, and the scoured bank
- The Martesana Canal and Recovering Water through Springs
Paris Manuscript G1 pages
Paris Manuscript H9 pages
- River scouring, gravel deposition, and a foundation figure
- Mill Wheel and Double Timber Trestle for a Watercourse
- Two plank-decks of beams
- Eddies Gnawing Canal Banks; Light Beyond the Mountains
- Screw for Lifting Weights, with Pulleys and Pile Driver
- Canal-boat in a vaulted gallery, with a stepped well
- Canal with two outlets; water that reverses its course
- Reckoning the cost of digging a canal in ducats
- Beams shoring earth; rack-and-pinion reversing gear
Paris Manuscript I6 pages
Paris Manuscript K6 pages
- A programme to record how water scours and silts riverbeds and banks
- Drawbridge studies and a note on the living bastion
- The Conduit and Siphon of the Garden of Blois
- Keeping Gravel Out of Canal Mouths
- Regulating the Naviglio: sluice-mouths and mill water
- The canal mouths high and low: where the water flows
Paris Manuscript L28 pages
- Plan with a drain and a master drain
- Earth-filled fortification walls against artillery
- Excavator gear: coupling, jibs and swing geometry
- Timber cribwork for a water-retaining bastion
- Water clock, rotating device and ditch-digging schemes
- Organising the diggers for a ditch excavation
- Machines for excavating a moat
- The excavating machine: wheel and boom
- Specifications of the excavating machine
- Beams, Lattice-work and Lettered Broken Lines
- Plan of a Fortress with Wall and Ditch Measures
- Organising an Earth-Moving Operation
- Protecting the Arno embankment at Rusciano from waves
- Clashing currents and the hollowed embankment
- How a weir's fall shapes a river's windings
- Pier struck by water: scour and a protective base
- The Bell of Siena in Motion and a Pile-Driver
- Bridge from Pera to Constantinople
- Survey of Porto Cesenatico with projecting bastions
- Survey of the fortress at the port of Cesena
- Height of a fortress turret measured from the water
- Canal barriers, plank joints, and a spoked-wheel mechanism
- Excavating machines and a sketch-map of Populonia
- Grapes brought to Cesena; a Populonia map-sketch
- Scheme for Excavating a Ditch
- Pulleys and windlasses for raising weights and earth
- Clock Gearing Labelled Venus and Sun; Weights of Earth
- Ballistics Trials with Gunpowder; Weights of Water, Sand and Earth