Manuscript

LDE FP2

Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
MS Pal. 962 , Datable to the late 17th century

368 numbered chapters without headings, no illustrations
No Table of Contents

Copia del Trattato della pittura di Leonardo da Vinci

possible Florentine provenance

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Analysis
This manuscript is written with a clear and uniform scribal hand, probably in the late 17th century. It has no illustrations, no Table of Contents and no chapter headings.

History
Giovanni Lessi; Dr. Giuseppe Sarchiani

Physical Description
[2] + fols. 60 + [2], 32 x 22 cm , in quarto; fol. [I] "Copia del Trattato dela pittura di Leonardo da Vinci tratta dal miglior codice riccardiano, gia' appartenuto a Lorenzo Giacomini e di sua mano in piu' luoghi corretto"

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Bibliography
Steinitz, Treatise on Painting, 1958 p. 58 (B, 14); Uzielli, Ricerche intorno a Leonardo da Vinci, 1901, p. 336-337; Mazzantini and Corbelli, Inventari dei manoscritti delle biblioteche dItalia, 1890-1954, vol. VIII, p. 455-456; 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; Verga, Bibliografia vinciana, 1931, p. 329; Farago, "Introduction," Re-Reading Leonardo, 2009, 1-36.

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