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456.

Bernardo da Ponte ... Val di Lugano ... many veins for anatomical

demonstration.

[Footnote: This fragmentary note is written on the margin of a

drawing of two legs.]

457.

Paolo of Tavechia, to see the marks in the German stones.

[Footnote: This note occurs on a pen and ink drawing made by

Leonardo as a sketch for the celebrated large cartoon in the

possession of the Royal Academy of Arts, in London. This cartoon is

commonly supposed to be identical with that described and lauded by

Vasari, which was exhibited in Florence at the time and which now

seems to be lost. Mr. Alfred Marks, of Long Ditton, in his valuable

paper (read before the Royal Soc. of Literature, June 28, 1882) "On

the St. Anne of Leonardo da Vinci", has adduced proof that the

cartoon now in the Royal Academy was executed earlier at Milan. The

note here given, which is written on the sheet containing the study

for the said cartoon, has evidently no reference to the drawing on

which it is written but is obviously of the same date. Though I have

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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete