Bologna, Biblioteca Comunale dell'Archiginnasio
MS B 271, Datable to the late 17th century
110 numbered chapters without headings, no illustrations
No Table of Contents
Scritti di Leonardo da Vinci intorno alla pittura
Roman provenance documented by watermark, from the library of Cassiano
dal Pozzo (1588-1657)
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This manuscript is a partial copy of the abridged Treatise on Painting.
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| Analysis This manuscript is bound together with excerpts on painting gathered by the Bolognese painter Giovanni Battista Grati (1681-1758). |
| History The manuscript entered the Hercolani Library in Bologna and was later acquired by the Biblioteca dell'Archiginnasio. |
| Physical Description fols. 11 + [22], 20.8 x 13.8 cm , in octavo fols. 1- 27v "Scritti di Leonardo da Vinci intorno alla pittura"; fols. 28-33 "Altri precetti di pittura ricavati da varii autori scritti da Giovanni Battista Grati pittore bolognese" (Excerpts on painting gathered by the Bolognese painter Giovanni Battista Grati). |
| Watermark Bird in profile on a two-tiered mound, similar to a watermark documented in the library of Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-1657). |
| Bibliography Pedretti, "Un apografo sconosciuto del Trattato della pittura," Studi Vinciani, 1957, pp. 142-151; Steinitz, Treatise on Painting, 1958, pp. 62 (B, 19); Barbieri, Inventario dei manoscritti della Biblioteca Comunale dell'Archiginnasio di Bologna, 1939, vol. 2, p. 58; Barone, “Cassiano dal Pozzo's manuscript copy of the Trattato: new evidence of editorial procedures and responses to Leonardo in the seventeenth century” Raccolta Vinciana, 35 (2011), p. 238. |
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