Four Books on Human Proportion

...we have placed for the heads of the hips, that is the bones in the hips.

Abdomen. End of the belly.

The reverenced parts; the shameful parts; the pubes original Latin: verenda, pudenda, pubes. The private parts. To this belongs the glans, the scrotum, the little rod referring to the penis, and the testicles. But in women we have called the beginning of the pubes the "beginning of nature," that is, of the cleft original Greek: χίσματος (chismatos); and the "lowest pubes" where it ends, which we nevertheless interpreted in some places with these words: "where the body becomes split." The woman’s cleft.

The ends of the buttocks. End of the hind-parts. The thigh. The upper bone.

The grooves of the thighs. The indentation of the bone.

Above the knee. Above the knee. Above the knee on the inside: the hollows of the knee original Latin: poplites.

Middle of the knee. In the middle. Below it. Under the knee.

The calf original Latin: sura. Calves. These are also noted as middle and lower. Likewise, outer and inner.

The shins original Latin: tibiæ. Shin-bone.

The ankle-bones original Latin: tali. The ankles. These are also paired, inner and outer.

The mountain of the foot or the convex foot. The instep of the foot.

The sole. The soles. We called the heel the foot. The heel-bone original Latin: calcaneum. The heels.

The arm. Arm. The shoulders. Shoulder. The armpits original Latin: alæ. Armpits. Muscles, that is, the fleshy parts. The "mice" original German: die mause. The Latin word musculus literally means "little mouse," reflecting an ancient belief that the movement of a muscle under the skin resembled a mouse running..

The binding of the elbow, which in Greek is the ankon original Greek: ἀγκών, where the elbow is bent at an angle. The elbow.

The joint of the hand, in Greek the karpos original Greek: καρπός. The wrist-joint.

Hand. Hand. Palm. The open hand. Fingers. Fingers and toes.

Joints. Joints.

These are the things which we wished, as it were, to report to you. May you, most distinguished man, consider them diligently, and preserve your goodwill and favor toward us and our studies.

The signature is abbreviated in the original as "Jo. Ca. Qu."