The First Book

Under the armpit, a 12th part.
In the elbow, a 20th part.
In front of the elbow, a 7th part.
By the hand, a 34th part.
And the hollow of the hand, a 27th part.
After this, I establish the widths of the parts of the woman seen from the front, at all points located along the vertical line.
I make the head, seen from the front, at the back vertebra of the head referring to the occipital bone at the base of the skull an 18th and 19th part wide.
Above the forehead, a 15th and 16th part.
Above the eyebrows, a 9th part.
Above the ears, an 8th part.
Above the nose, a 10th part.
The neck below the chin, a 12th part.
Above the shoulder blades, near the hollow of the neck suprasternal notch: the visible dip at the base of the throat, a 5th part.
And below that, the armpit joints stand two 11th parts wide from each other.
And I make the armpit joints above the breast four 15th parts wide.
Between the armpits, a 6th part.
Between the nipples, an 8th part.
Below the breasts, a 10th and an 11th part.
In the soft part of the belly the flank or waist, a 5th part.
Above the navel, a 4th part.
At the end of the hips, a 7th and 8th part.
On these lines, the joints of the hips stand two 11th parts wide from each other.
And the leg at the end of the pubic area original: "schaemte",

I make a 15th and 16th part wide.
Above the knee, two 21st parts.
In the middle of the knee, two 25th parts.
Below the knee, also two 25th parts.
In the middle of the calves original: "wapen", a 22nd and 24th part.
At the end of the calves, a 14th part.
The leg above the ankle joint, a 26th part.
Through both ankles, a 25th part.
But I make the foot a 16th part wide.
And behind the heels original: "verssen ofte hielen", a 28th part.
I also make the woman from behind, between the armpits, a 5th part wide.
The buttocks original: "aers", split from below upwards, a 6th part.
The arm seen from the front, I make below the armpit downwards a 16th part wide.
By the elbow, a 19th part.
In front of the elbow, in the width of the arm, a 15th part.
Through by the hand, a 27th part.
And the open hand, a 16th part.
After this, I draw in this marking the outline original: "ghestalt linie" of the woman seen from the side, and also from the front and back.
And one shall take very careful note where the outlines, next to this marking, are drawn narrower or wider, just as I have drawn in the following.
And this woman’s figure is labeled A j.