Design for a water-powered paper-making machine (recto)
mid to late 16th century
Pen and brown ink over graphite (or black chalk) underdrawing
Sheet: 22.7 x 37.9 cm
DR1979:0020 R/V
inscribed and numbered - alberti (pen and brown ink, lower left, contemporary hand),Difitio e qualchiera [illegible] p[er]ezze/p[er] fare carta a la rotaconcassette [?]/p[er] pigliar laqua il fuso longo condeti che alza/tre mazzi[?] p[er] canto che sono sei [illegible] p[er] volta ..alza/tre mazzi [?]p[er] cassa la cassa e pocho ifondo/elarga [?] bocha [illegible] canto (penand brown ink, lower centre, artist's hand), (other inscriptions, pen andbrown ink, artist's hand, on various parts of the drawing), 42 (graphite,lower right, modern hand), 3 (graphite, lower left, verso, modern hand).
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