The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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[Footnote: Leonardo wrote these lines on the margin of a page of the  
Trattato di Francesco di Giorgio, where there are several drawings  
of columns, as well as a head drawn in profile inside an outline  
sketch of a capital.]  
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a b is 1/3 of n m; m o is 1/6 of r o. The ovolo projects 1/6  
of r o; s 7 1/5 of r o, a b is divided into 9 1/2; the  
abacus is 3/9 the ovolo 4/9, the bead-moulding and the fillet 2/9  
and 1/2.  
[Footnote: See Pl. LXXXV, No. 16. In the original the drawing and  
writing are both in red chalk.]  
Pl. LXXXV No. 6 (MS. Ash. II 6b) contains a small sketch of a  
capital with the following note, written in three lines: I chorni  
del capitelo deono essere la quarta parte d'uno quadro (The horns  
of a capital must measure the fourth part of a square).  
MS. S. K. M. III 72b contains two sketches of ornamentations of  
windows.  
In MS. C. A. 308a; 938a (see Pl. LXXXII No. 1) there are several  
sketches of columns. One of the two columns on the right is similar  
to those employed by Bramante at the Canonica di S. Ambrogio. The  
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