The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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that is if the court be 40 braccia, the house must be 20 high as  
regards the walls of the said courtyard; and this courtyard must be  
half as wide as the whole front.  
[Footnote: See Pl. CI, no. 1, and compare the dimensions here given,  
with No. 748 lines 26-29; and the drawing belonging to it Pl. LXXXI,  
no. 2.]  
On the dispositions of a stable.  
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61.  
FOR MAKING A CLEAN STABLE.  
The manner in which one must arrange a stable. You must first divide  
its width in 3 parts, its depth matters not; and let these 3  
divisions be equal and 6 braccia broad for each part and 10 high,  
and the middle part shall be for the use of the stablemasters; the 2  
side ones for the horses, each of which must be 6 braccia in width  
and 6 in length, and be half a braccio higher at the head than  
behind. Let the manger be at 2 braccia from the ground, to the  
bottom of the rack, 3 braccia, and the top of it 4 braccia. Now, in  
order to attain to what I promise, that is to make this place,  
contrary to the general custom, clean and neat: as to the upper part  
of the stable, i. e. where the hay is, that part must have at its  
outer end a window 6 braccia high and 6 broad, through which by  
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