Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana
MS Ricc. 3208, Datable to after 1568
377 un-numbered chapters with headings, 51 illustrations
No Table of Contents
Disccorso sopra il disegno di Lionardo Vinci, Parte seconda
Florentine provenance documented by watermark
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This manuscript is one of the earliest copies of Leonardo's Treatise on painting and one of the closest to the text and illustrations of Francesco Melzi’s Libro di pittura (VU).
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| Analysis This manuscript is one of the oldest surviving copies of Leonardo's Treatise on Painting. Its frontispiece includes Leonardo’s portrait taken from Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of of the artists (Florence, 1568), a fact that dates the manuscript after 1568. The text was carefully copied by a single scribe who arranged it between red sidelines. The illustrations are placed outside the red lines and drawn with the same ink used for the text, possibly by the same scribe. The text and illustrations are very close to Melzi’s original compilation (VU) and the manuscript may have been copied directly from VU and independently from other early Florentine copies, such as F2 or FM2, to which F6 differs in terms of both text and images. The Florentine provenance of this manuscript is documented by the watermark (Sconza 2007). It remains hypothetical that the Florentine Carlo Concini was the owner of this manuscript (Pedretti 1977). |
| History The early history of F6 is unknown. |
| Physical Description [II] + fols.1-94 + [II], (ancient and modern pagination), 35.3 x 24.5 cm , in quarto, large format Fol.1 Portrait of Leonardo, after Vasari, Lives of artists (Florence 1568) with inscription "Lionardo da Vinci pittore e scultore fiorentino. Vince costui pur solo tutti altri: et vince Fidia et vince Apelle et tutto il lor vittorioso stuolo". |
| Watermark 8 chain lines, watermark type Briquet 203 and Zonghi 706, documented in Florence in 1517 |
| Bibliography Leonardo genio e cartografo. La rappresentazione del territorio tra scienza arte, 2003, p. 342; Ciardi and Sisi, eds., L'immagine di Leonardo: testimonianze figurative dal XVI al XIX secolo, 1997, pp. 78-79; Steinitz, "Trattato Studies. II,” in Raccolta Vinciana 19 (1962), p. 223; Tanturli, "Un nuovo manoscritto della Vita del Brunelleschi di Antonio Manetti", in Studi di filologia italiana. Bollettino annuale dell'Accademia della Crusca, vol. 51, 1993, pp. 134-136 Kristeller, Iter italicum, 1965, vol. I, p. 183; Pedretti, Commentary to the Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci Compiled and Edited from the Original Manuscripts by Jean Paul Richter, 1977, p. 22-24; Sconza, La réception du Libro di pittura de Léonard de Vinci: de la mort de l’auteur à la publication du Trattato della pittura (Paris 1651). Ph.D. Diss. Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle Paris III and Università degli Studi di Macerata, 2007; 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), pp. 223-286; Fiorani, “The Shadows of Leonardo's Annunciation and Their Lost Legacy,” in Imitation, Representation and Printing in the Italian Renaissance, Roy Eriksen and Magne Malmanger (eds), 2009), pp. 119-156; Farago, "Introduction," Re-Reading Leonardo, 2009, 1-36. |
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