The Way to Write and Pronounce the Letters ... 10-12v
The Declension of Nouns ... 13-18
The Conjugation and Formation of Verbs ... 18-52
Book II
The Rudimenta ... 52-59v
The Syntax ... 59v-66v
Book III
The Written Language ... 67-75
The Various Kinds of Names ... 75v-98v
Of particular interest in the context of Collado's grammar is the manner in which Rodriguez displays the verbal system. While the Ars Grammaticae presents the verbal system as a series of alterational rules to be applied to the base forms, the Arte Breve goes even further than the Arte to differentiate the formational rules from the conjugational displays. Rodriguez tries several devices to elucidate his material. For example, Charts A and B below represent very early attempts to use a bordered format for linguistic description.