The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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diminished--on Pl. I, has in the original two lines of writing  
underneath; one in red chalk of two or three words is partly  
effaced: lionardo it... lm (or lai?); the second written in  
pencil is as follows: fatto da lui stesso assai vecchio. In both  
of these the writing is very like the Master's, but is certainly  
only an imitation.]  
Notes bearing Dates (1369--1378).  
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369.  
The day of Santa Maria della Neve [of the Snows] August the 2nd  
473. [Footnote: W. An. I. 1368. 1369. This date is on a drawing of  
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a rocky landscape. See Chronique des Arts 1881 no. 23: Leonard de  
Vinci a-t-il ete au Righi le 5 aout 1473? letter by H. de  
Geymuller. The next following date in the MSS. is 1478 (see No.  
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63).  
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370.  
On the 2nd of April 1489, book entitled 'Of the human figure'.  
Footnote: While the letters in the MS. notes of 1473 and 1478 are  
very ornate, this note and the texts on anatomy on the same sheet  
for instance No. 805) are in the same simple hand as we see on Pl.  
CXVI and CXIX. No 1370 is the only dated note of the years between  
480 and 1489, and the characters are in all essential points  
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