Codex Atlanticus29 pages
- Transporting a large casting mould to its pit
- Casting a bombard: five stages of the mould
- Fountain, timed water basins and a foundry-earth recipe
- Grain mill, furnaces, and a concave burning mirror
- Hoist and furnace apparatus pouring molten material
- Jests, Maxims, and Workshop Recipes (dated 23 April 1490)
- A distillation furnace with a water-cooled alembic (still)
- Concave Burning Mirrors and Foundry Notes
- Binocular vision of a sphere, with balls hung by cords
- Cost estimate for the Trivulzio equestrian monument
- Craft Recipes: Parting Gold from Silver, Gilding, and Yellow Glass
- The Mazzocchio: A Faceted Torus in Perspective
- The compound shadow, and shadow in painting and sculpture
- Machine to Make Spheres, with an Alloy Recipe
- Crucibles, a geared millstone and a goose-foot oar
- Self-Moving Water Machine, Coffered Ceiling and Stucco Recipes
- Draft letter on the bronze doors of Piacenza Cathedral
- Casting thin tin plates on a bed of sand
- Instructions for lost-wax bronze casting
- Casting moulds, a barrel vault and siege notes
- Foundry notes: firing the mould, setting the core
- A Conical Spiral Water-Tube, a Template, and a Casting Note
- Copper-melting furnace and embryonic umbilical studies
- Interlace knot designs, with a casting note and a doubling series
- Letter of self-recommendation to Ludovico Sforza
- Casting Furnace in Section, with Frame and Screw Gear
- Machines for Grinding Concave Mirrors
- Mould Core and Mantle for Casting the Horse; Number Table
- Large alembic, lance points and a casting furnace
Codex Arundel8 pages
- Foundry vessels and filling a form with bronze rods for casting
- Foundry notes: an iron core for the casting mould
- Squaring the circle, with cylinders, cones and spheres
- Casting a terracotta mould for a pyramid base
- Casting Note: Fill the Void with a Bronze Rod
- Casting Notes: Iron Core, Firing Holes, and a Jack
- A sealed brazier, notes toward fusion, and a right angle in a circle
- Heating vessels, a funnel and a masonry furnace
Codex Forster II3 pages
Codex Forster III8 pages
- Recipes for tempering steel and imitating jasper amber
- Weaving asbestos fibre into a boat or strong vessel
- Casting proportions: earth to metal, wet and dry
- Casting recipes and a rod hung from two cords
- Recipes for Black Drawing Ink and for Casting Bronze
- Casting recipe and a note on light and apparent size
- Recipe for aqua fortis and for casting a copper figure
- Mirror Alloy; Light Eating into a Body's Shadow
Codex Madrid I1 pages
Codex Madrid II32 pages
- Squaring Curved Figures; a Note on Etching Plates for Print
- Casting the Sforza horse and recipes for casting medals
- Casting the Sforza horse: seams, position, and firing pit
- Casting the Horse: Furnaces, Mould Joints and Armature Irons
- Sealing the Mould's Outer Seams and the Final Clay Layers
- Pouring the Bronze: Furnace Taps, Soaking and Heating the Mould
- Distributing the Bronze, Choosing Fuel, Freeing the Cope
- Inner Mould Mixture, Pouring Gates and Timing Notes
- Firing the Mould, Lifting the Cope, the Core and the Casting Pit
- Casting the horse's tail: waterproofing and sealing the mold
- Molten bronze lifting the core; melting, alloying and charging the furnace
- Leveling the bronze: a water-channel test for the cast
- The cost of the casting; filling the horse's base and the rising-bronze mark
- The detachable casting channel; a faint chalk horse beneath the text
- Re-firing the mold, weighing its earth, and unstopping the furnace
- Casting the Sforza Horse: mould lining and bronze delivery
- Casting trials: mould material and why the horse stands upright
- Casting the horse inverted: access door and pouring sequence
- The core vent and the shape of the melting furnace
- Founding recipes: salt, flux, fires and mould coats
- Casting proportions: bronze per pound of earth, wax and wood
- Casting the bronze: fuel, smoke, and the simultaneous pour
- 20 December 1493: to cast the horse lying down and tailless
- Filling the mould slowly so the bronze can shrink and feed
- Device for carrying and lowering the horse-mould cover
- Universal method of lowering the horse-mould by winch
- Armature of the throat and body of the horse-mould
- Removing the horse-mould cover and carrying it away
- Metal distance-pieces holding the mould off the core
- Iron fittings and chainings of the mould's armature
- Piece-Mould for the Horse's Head and Neck
- Armature for Casting the Bronze Horse
Codex Urbinas (Treatise on Painting)26 pages
- On Imitable Sciences: Why Painting Is Unique and Noble
- Painting and Music: Gradations, Proportion, and Mechanical Arts
- Painting Nobler than Music: Sense, Permanence, Universality
- Painting a science, sculpture a mechanical art
- Painting versus sculpture: bodily labour against mental labour
- Cutting muscle and hollow: the sculptor's labour of mind
- The painter's ten considerations against the sculptor's five
- Glazed terracotta of the della Robbia; the round versus relief
- Bas-relief's hidden difficulty and the sculptor's enemy: light
- Paragone: Why Sculpture Is of Lesser Intellect Than Painting
- Paragone: The Sculptor's Errors and the Mind of Painting
- Paragone: The Painter Adds, the Sculptor Only Removes
- Paragone: Painting as the Greater Mental Discourse
- Paragone: All Visible Things Within Painting's Reach
- Aerial perspective, and painting compared with sculpture
- Paragone: Nature, Not the Sculptor, Makes Light and Shade
- The Sculptor's Excuse: Painting versus Sculpture
- Painting and Sculpture: Permanence, Light, and Illusion
- Perspective in Painting, Given Free to Sculpture by Nature
- Bronze, Copper, and Glass: the Permanence of Painting and Sculpture
- White-and-Black Relief; Why Painting Looks Larger Than Sculpture
- Figure Balance, the Ten Offices of the Eye, and Carving a Statue
- Pointing Rods for Marble, and a Painting of Everlasting Varnish
- Table of Contents, Part One: painting, poetry and music
- Table of Contents, Part One: painting versus sculpture
- Treatise index: the eye, perspective, and reflections in water
Paris Manuscript A2 pages
Paris Manuscript B4 pages
Paris Manuscript C2 pages
Paris Manuscript E2 pages
Paris Manuscript F1 pages
Paris Manuscript G8 pages
- Geometric constructions for large arcs, and a furnace varnish
- Furnace with a liftable dome and a swinging template
- Pulley-and-former mechanism for shaping a concave surface
- Architraves of many pieces, and casting a vessel in a plaster box
- A machine for grinding and polishing a curved metal surface
- Pyramidal casting for a wire-drawing die
- On furnaces: kilns for casting plates and vessels
- On Soldering: Copper Sheets and the Cathedral Ball