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centimetres by 26 1/4. The centre portion of another is given on p.
61. G. Govi remarks on these ornaments (Saggio p. 22): "Codesti
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gruppi eran probabilmente destinati a servir di modello a ferri da
rilegatori per adornar le cartelle degli scolari (?). Fregi
somigliantissimi a questi troviamo infatti impressi in oro sui
cartoni di vari volumi contemporanei, e li vediam pur figurare nelle
lettere iniziali di alcune edizioni del tempo."
Dürer who copied them, omitting the inscription, added to the second
impressions his own monogram. In his diary he designates them simply
as "Die sechs Knoten" (see THAUSING, Life of A. Dürer I, 362,
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63). In Leonardo's MSS. we find here and there little sketches or
suggestions for similar ornaments. Compare too G. MONGERI, L'Arte
in Milano, p. 315 where an ornament of the same character is given
from the old decorations of the vaulted ceiling of the Sacristy of
S. Maria delle Grazie.]
[Footnote: 680, 17. The meaning in which the word coppi, literally
pitchers, is here used I am unable to determine; but a change to
copie seems to me too doubtful to be risked.]
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81.
Stubborn rigour.
Doomed rigour.
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