The recto and verso terms can also be employed for the front and back of a one-sheet artwork, particularly in drawing.
The recto consequently preserves the top left corner of a right-hand page; while the verso preserves the top right corner of a left-hand page.
Gouveia is known as the "aldeia em verso" (village in verse), because its signs containing the names of the streets always carry a stanza.
The verso of the birthing-tray depicts a chubby male child ("putto") who warns a pet, maybe a small dog.
The verso leaf is blank.
This provides some explanation, at least, of why the directs appear, very unusually, between verso and recto and only in the section where the voice has entered.
A similar process would have taken place at the end of the final surviving page (folio 4 verso).
It contains 8 pages, and starts at the verso of a folio.
