Giuliano Trombetta,--Antonio di Ferrara, --Oil of .... [Footnote:

Near this text is the sketch of a head drawn in red chalk.]

1395.

Paul was snatched up to heaven. [Footnote: See the facsimile of this

note on Pl. XXIII No. 2.]

1396.

Giuliano da Maria, physician, has a steward without hands.

1397.

Have some ears of corn of large size sent from Florence.

1398.

See the bedstead at Santa Maria. Secret.

1399.

Arrigo is to have 11 gold Ducats. Arrigo is to have 4 gold ducats in

the middle of August.

1400.

Give your master the instance of a captain who does not himself win

the victory, but the soldiers do by his counsels; and so he still

deserves the reward.

1401.

Messer Pier Antonio.

1402.

Oil,--yellow,--Ambrosio,--the mouth, --the farmhouse.

1403.

My dear Alessandro from Parma, by the hand of ...

1404.

Giovannina, has a fantastic face,--is at Santa Caterina, at the

Hospital. [Footnote: Compare the text on the same page: No. 667.]

1405.

24 tavole make 1 perch. 4 trabochi make 1 tavola. 4 braccia and a

half make a trabocco. A perch contains 1936 square braccia, or 1944.

1406.

The road of Messer Mariolo is 13 1/4 braccia wide; the House of

Evangelista is 75.

It enters 7 1/2 braccia in the house of Mariolo. [Footnote: On this

page and that which faces it, MS.I2 7la, are two diagrams with

numerous reference numbers, evidently relating to the measurements

of a street.]

1407.

I ask at what part of its curved motion the moving cause will leave

the thing moved and moveable.

Speak to Pietro Monti of these methods of throwing spears.

1408.

Antonio de' Risi is at the council of Justice.

1409.

Paolo said that no machine that moves another .... [Footnote: The

passage, of which the beginning is here given, deals with questions

in mechanics. The instances in which Leonardo quotes the opinions of

his contemporaries on scientific matters are so rare as to be worth

noticing. Compare No. 901. ]

1410.

Caravaggio. [Footnote: _Caravaggio_, a village not far from the Adda

between Milan and Brescia, where Polidoro and Michelangelo da

Caravaggio were born. This note is given in facsimile on Pl. XIII,

No. I (above, to the left). On Pl. XIII, No. 2 above to the right we

read _cerovazo_.]

1411.

Pulleys,--nails,--rope,--mercury,--cloth, Monday.

1412.

MEMORANDUM.

Maghino, Speculus of Master Giovanni the Frenchman; Galenus on

utility.

1413.

Near to Cordusio is Pier Antonio da Tossano and his brother

Serafino. [Footnote: This note is written between lines 23 and 24 of

the text No. 710. Corduso, Cordusio (_curia ducis_) = Cordus in the

Milanese dialect, is the name of a Piazza between the Via del

Broletto and the Piazza de' Mercanti at Milan.. In the time of il

Moro it was the centre of the town. The persons here named were

members of the noble Milanese family de'Fossani; Ambrogio da

Possano, the contemporary painter, had no connection with them.]

1414.

Memoranda after 1500 (1414--1434)

1414.

Paul of Vannochio at Siena ... The upper chamber for the apostles.

[4] Buildings by Bramante.

The governor of the castle made a prisoner.

[6] Visconti carried away and his son killed. [Footnote 6: Visconti.

_Chi fosse quel Visconte non sapremmo indovinare fra tanti di questo

nome. Arluno narra che allora atterrate furono le case de' Viconti,

de' Castiglioni, de' Sanseverini, e de' Botta e non è improbabile

che ne fossero insultati e morti i padroni. Molti Visconti annovera

lo stesso Cronista che per essersi rallegrati del ritorno del duca

in Milano furono da' Francesi arrestati, e strascinati in Francia

come prigionieri di stato; e fra questi Messer Francesco Visconti, e

suo figliuolo Battista_. (AMORETTI, Mem. Stor. XIX.).]

Giovanni della Rosa deprived of his money.

Borgonzio began ....; and moreover his fortunes fled. [Footnote 8:

Borgonzio o Brugonzio Botta fu regolatore delle ducali entrate sotto

il Moro, alla cui fuga la casa sua fu pur messa a sacco da'

partitanti francesi. (AMORETTI, l. c.)]

The Duke has lost the state, property and liberty and none of his

entreprises was carried out by him.

[Footnote: l. 4--10 This passage evidently refers to events in Milan

at the time of the overthrow of Ludovico il Moro. Amoretti published

it in the '_Memorie Storiche_' and added copious notes.]

1415.

Ambrosio Petri, St. Mark, 4 boards for the window, 2 ..., 3 the

saints of chapels, 5 the Genoese at home.

1416.

Piece of tapestry,--pair of compasses,-- Tommaso's book,--the book

of Giovanni Benci,--the box in the custom-house,--to cut the

cloth,--the sword-belt,--to sole the boots, --a light hat,--the cane

from the ruined houses,--the debt for the table linen,

--swimming-belt,--a book of white paper for drawing,--charcoal.--How

much is a florin ...., a leather bodice.

1417.

Borges shall get for you the Archimedes from the bishop of Padua,

and Vitellozzo the one from Borgo a San Sepolcro [Footnote 3: Borgo

a San Sepolcro, where Luca Paciolo, Leonardo's friend, was born.]

[Footnote: Borges. A Spanish name.]

1418.

Marzocco's tablet.

1419.

Marcello lives in the house of Giacomo da Mengardino.

1420.

Where is Valentino?--boots,--boxes in the

custom-house,...,--[Footnote 5: Carmine. A church and monastery at

Florence.] the monk at the Carmine,--squares,--[Footnotes 7 and 8:

Martelli, Borgherini; names of Florentine families. See No. 4.]

Piero Martelli,--[8] Salvi Borgherini,--send back the bags,--a

support for the spectacles,--[Footnote 11: San Gallo; possibly

Giuliano da San Gallo, the Florentine architect.] the nude study of

San Gallo,--the cloak. Porphyry,--groups,--square,--[Footnote 16:

Pandolfini, see No. 1544 note.] Pandolfino. [Footnote: Valentino.

Cesare Borgia is probably meant. After being made Archbishop of

Valence by Alexander VI he was commonly called Valentinus or

Valentino. With reference to Leonardo's engagements by him see pp.

224 and 243, note.]

1421.

Concave mirrors; philosophy of Aristotle;[Footnote 2: _Avicenna_

(Leonardo here writes it Avinega) the Arab philosopher, 980-1037,

for centuries the unimpeachable authority on all medical questions.

Leonardo possibly points here to a printed edition: _Avicennae

canonum libri V, latine_ 1476 _Patavis._ Other editions are, Padua

1479, and Venice 1490.] the books of Avicenna Italian and Latin

vocabulary; Messer Ottaviano Palavicino or his Vitruvius [Footnote

3: _Vitruvius._ See Vol. I, No. 343 note.]. bohemian knives;

Vitruvius[Footnote 6: _Vitruvius._ See Vol. I, No. 343 note.]; go

every Saturday to the hot bath where you will see naked men;

'Meteora' [Footnote 7: _Meteora._ See No. 1448, 25.],

Archimedes, on the centre of gravity; [Footnote 9: The works of

Archimedes were not printed during Leonardo's life-time.] anatomy

[Footnote 10: Compare No. 1494.] Alessandro Benedetto; The Dante of

Niccolo della Croce; Inflate the lungs of a pig and observe whether

they increase in width and in length, or in width diminishing in

length.

[Footnote 14: _Johannes Marliani sua etate philosophorum et

medicorum principis et ducalis phisic. primi de proportione motuum

velocitate questio subtilissima incipit ex ejusdem Marliani

originali feliciter extracta, M(ilano)_ 1482.

Another work by him has the title: _Marlianus mediolanensis. Questio

de caliditate corporum humanorum tempore hiemis ed estatis et de

antiparistasi ad celebrem philosophorum et medicorum universitatem

ticinensem._ 1474.] Marliano, on Calculation, to Bertuccio.

Albertus, on heaven and earth [Footnote 15: See No. 1469, 1. 7.],

[from the monk Bernardino]. Horace has written on the movements of

the heavens.

[Footnote: _Filosofia d'Aristotele_ see No. 1481 note.]

1422.

Of the three regular bodies as opposed to some commentators who

disparage the Ancients, who were the originators of grammar and the

sciences and ...

1423.

The room in the tower of Vaneri.

[Footnote: This note is written inside the sketch of a plan of a

house. On the same page is the date 1513 (see No. 1376).]

1424.

The figures you will have to reserve for the last book on shadows

that they may appear in the study of Gerardo the illuminator at San

Marco at Florence.

[Go to see Melzo, and the Ambassador, and Maestro Bernardo].

[Footnote: L. 1-3 are in the original written between lines 3 and 4

of No. 292. But the sense is not clear in this connection. It is

scarcely possible to devine the meaning of the following sentence.

2. 3. _Gherardo_ Miniatore, a famous illuminator, 1445-1497, to whom

Vasari dedicated a section of his Lives (Vol. II pp. 237-243, ed.

Sansoni 1879).

5. _Bernardo_, possibly the painter Bernardo Zenale.]

1425.

Hermes the philosopher.

1426.

Suisset, viz. calculator,--Tisber, --Angelo Fossobron,--Alberto.

1427.

The structure of the drawbridge shown me by Donnino, and why _c_ and

_d_ thrust downwards.

[Footnote: The sketch on the same page as this text represents two

poles one across the other. At the ends of the longest are the

letter _c_ and _d_. The sense of the passage is not rendered any

clearer.]

1428.

The great bird will take its first flight;-- on the back of his

great swan,--filling the universe with wonders; filling all writings

with his fame and bringing eternal glory to his birthplace.

[Footnote: This seems to be a speculation about the flying machine

(compare p. 271).]

1429.

This stratagem was used by the Gauls against the Romans, and so

great a mortality ensued that all Rome was dressed in mourning.

[Footnote: Leonardo perhaps alludes to the Gauls under Brennus, who

laid his sword in the scale when the tribute was weighed.]

1430.

Alberto da Imola;--Algebra, that is, the demonstration of the

equality of one thing to another.

1431.

Johannes Rubicissa e Robbia.

1432.

Ask the wife of Biagio Crivelli how the capon nurtures and hatches

the eggs of the hen,--he being drunk.

1433.

The book on Water to Messer Marco Antonio.

[Footnote: Possibly Marc-Antonio della Torre, see p. 97.]

1434.

Have Avicenna's work on useful inventions translated; spectacles

with the case, steel and fork and...., charcoal, boards, and paper,

and chalk and white, and wax;.... .... for glass, a saw for bones

with fine teeth, a chisel, inkstand ........ three herbs, and Agnolo

Benedetto. Get a skull, nut,--mustard.

Boots,--gloves, socks, combs, papers, towels, shirts,....

shoe-tapes,--..... shoes, penknife, pens. A skin for the chest.

[Footnote: 4. Lapis. Compare Condivi, _Vita di Michelagnolo

Buonarotti_, Chap. XVIII.: _Ma egli_ (Michelangelo) _non avendo che

mostrare, prese una penna (percioche in quel tempo il lapis non era

in uso) e con tal leggiadria gli dipinse una mano ecc._ The incident

is of the year l496.--Lapis means pencil, and chalk (_matita_).

Between lines 7 and 8 are the texts given as Nos. 819 and No. 7.]

Undated memoranda (1435-1457).

1435.

The book of Piero Crescenze,--studies from the nude by Giovanni

Ambrosio,--compasses, --the book of Giovanni Giacomo.

1436.

MEMORARDUM.

To make some provisions for my garden, --Giordano, _De

Ponderibus_[Footnote 3: _Giordano_. Jordanus Nemorarius, a

mathematician of the beginning of the XIIIth century. No particulars

of his life are known. The title of his principal work is:

_Arithmetica decem libris demonstrata_, first published at Paris

1496. In 1523 appeared at Nuremberg: _Liber Jordani Nemorarii de

ponderibus, propositiones XIII et earundem demonstrationes,

multarumque rerum rationes sane pulcherrimas complectens, nunc in

lucem editus._],--the peacemaker, the flow and ebb of the sea,--have

two baggage trunks made, look to Beltraffio's [Footnote 6:

_Beltraffio_, see No. 465, note 2.

There are sketches by the side of lines 8 and 10.] lathe and have

taken the stone,--out leave the books belonging to Messer Andrea the

German,-- make scales of a long reed and weigh the substance when

hot and again when cold. The mirror of Master Luigi; _A b_ the flow

and ebb of the water is shown at the mill of Vaprio,--a cap.

1437.

Giovanni Fabre,--Lazaro del Volpe,-- the common,--Ser Piero.

[Footnote: These names are inserted on a plan of plots of land

adjoining the Arno.]

1438.

[Lactantius], [the book of Benozzo], groups,--to bind the book,--a

lantern,--Ser Pecantino,--Pandolfino.--[Rosso]--a square, --small

knives,--carriages,--curry combs-- cup.

1439.

Quadrant of Carlo Marmocchi,--Messer Francesco Araldo,--Ser

Benedetto d'Accie perello,--Benedetto on arithmetic,--Maestro Paulo,

physician,--Domenico di Michelino,-- ...... of the Alberti,--Messer

Giovanni Argimboldi.

1440.

Colours, formula,--Archimedes,--Marcantonio.

Tinned iron,--pierced iron.

1441.

See the shop that was formerly Bartolommeo's, the stationer.

[Footnote: 6. _Marc Antonio_, see No. 1433.]

1442.

The first book is by Michele di Francesco Nabini; it treats on

science.

1443.

Messer Francesco, physician of Lucca, with the Cardinal Farnese.

[Footnote: _Alessandro Farnese_, afterwards Pope Paul III was

created in 1493 Cardinal di San Cosimo e San Damiano, by Alexander

VI.]

1444.

Pandolfino's book [Footnote 1: _Pandolfino, Agnolo_, of Florence. It

is to this day doubtful whether he or L. B. Alberti was the author

of the famous work '_Del Governo della Famiglia_'. It is the more

probable that Leonardo should have meant this work by the words _il

libro_, because no other book is known to have been written by

Pandolfino. This being the case this allusion of Leonardo's is an

important evidence in favour of Pandolfino's authorship (compare No.

1454, line 3).],--knives,--a pen for ruling,--to have the vest

dyed,--The library at St.-Mark's,--The library at Santo

Spirito,--Lactantius of the Daldi [Footnote 7: The works of

Lactantius were published very often in Italy during Leonardo's

lifetime. The first edition published in 1465 "_in monastero

sublacensi_" was also the first book printed in Italy.],--Antonio

Covoni,--A book by Maestro Paolo Infermieri, --Boots, shoes and

hose,--(Shell)lac, --An apprentice to do the models for me. Grammar,

by Lorenzo de Medici,--Giovanni del Sodo,--Sansovino, [Footnote 15:

_Sansovino_, Andrea--the _sculptor_; 1460-1529.]--a ruler,--a very

sharp knife,--Spectacles,--fractions....,

--repair.........,--Tomaso's book,-- Michelagnolo's little chain;

Learn the multiplication of roots from Maestro Luca;--my map of the

world which Giovanni Benci has [Footnote 25: Leonardo here probably

alludes to the map, not executed by him (See p. 224), which is with

the collection of his MSS. at Windsor, and was published in the

_Archaeologia_ Vol. XI (see p. 224).];-Socks,--clothes from the

customhouse-officier,--Red Cordova leather,--The map of the world,

of Giovanni Benci,--a print, the districts about Milan--Market book.

Get the Friar di Brera to show you [the book] '_de Ponderibus_'

[Footnote 11: _Brera_, now _Palazzo delle Scienze ed Arti. Until

1571 it was the monastery of the order of the Umiliati and

afterwards of the Jesuits.

_De ponderibus_, compare No. 1436, 3.],--

Of the measurement of San Lorenzo,--

I lent certain groups to Fra Filippo de Brera, [Footnote 13:

_Brera_, now _Palazzo delle Scienze ed Arti. Until 1571 it was the

monastery of the order of the Umiliati and afterwards of the

Jesuits.

_De ponderibus_, compare No. 1436, 3.]--

Memorandum: to ask Maestro Giovannino as to the mode in which the

tower of Ferrara is walled without loopholes,--

Ask Maestro Antonio how mortars are placed on bastions by day or by

night,--

Ask Benedetto Portinari how the people go on the ice in Flanders,--

On proportions by Alchino, with notes by Marliano, from Messer

Fazio,--

The measurement of the sun, promised me by Maestro Giovanni, the

Frenchman,--

The cross bow of Maestro Gianetto,--

The book by Giovanni Taverna that Messer Fazio,--

You will draw Milan [21],--

The measurement of the canal, locks and supports, and large boats;

and the expense,--

Plan of Milan [Footnote 23: _Fondamento_ is commonly used by

Leonardo to mean ground-plan. See for instance p. 53.],--

Groups by Bramante [Footnote 24: _Gruppi_. See Vol. I p. 355, No.

600, note 9.],--

The book on celestial phenomena by Aristoteles, in Italian [Footnote

25: _Meteora_. By this Leonardo means no doubt the four books. He

must refer here to a MS. translation, as no Italian translation is

known to have been published (see No. 1477 note).],--

Try to get Vitolone, which is in the library at Pavia [Footnote 26:

_Vitolone_ see No. 1506, note.

_Libreria di Pavia_. One of the most famous of Italian libraries.

After the victory of Novara in April 1500, Louis XII had it conveyed

to France, '_come trofeo di vittoria_'!] and which treats of

Mathematics,--He had a master [learned] in waterworks and get him to

explain the repairs and the costs, and a lock and a canal and a mill

in the Lombard fashion.

A grandson of Gian Angelo's, the painter has a book on water which

was his fathers.

Paolino Scarpellino, called Assiolo has great knowledge of water

works.

[Footnote 12: _Sco Lorenzo_. A church at Milan, see pp. 39, 40 and

50.]

[Footnote 13. 24: _Gruppi_. See Vol. I p. 355, No. 600, note 9.]

[Footnote 16: The _Portinari_ were one of the great merchant-

families of Florence.]

1449.

Francesco d'Antonio at Florence.

1450.

Giuliano Condi[1],--Tomaso Ridolfi,-- Tomaso Paganelli,--Nicolo del

Nero,--Simone Zasti,--Nasi,--the heir of Lionardo Manelli,

--Guglielmo di Ser Martino,--Bartolomeo del Tovaglia,--Andrea

Arrigucci,-- Nicolo Capponi,--Giovanni Portinari.

[Footnote: I. _Guiliano Gondi_. Ser Piero da Vinci, Leonardo's

father, lived till 1480, in a house belonging to Giuliano Gondi. In

1498 this was pulled down to make room for the fine Palazzo built on

the Piazza San Firenze by Giuliano di San Gallo, which still exists.

In the _Riassunto del Catasto di Ser Piero da Vinci_, 1480, Leonardo

is not mentioned; it is evident therefore that he was living

elsewhere. It may be noticed incidentally that in the _Catasto di

Giuliano Gondi_ of the same year the following mention is made of

his four eldest sons:

_Lionardo mio figliuolo d'eta d'anni 29, non fa nulla, Giovambatista

d'eta d'anni 28 in Ghostantinopoli, Billichozo d'eta d'anni 24 a

Napoli, Simone d'eta d'anni 23 in Ungheria._

He himself was a merchant of gold filigree (_facciamo lavorare una

bottegha d'arte di seta ... facciamo un pocho di trafico a Napoli_}.

As he was 59 years old in 1480, he certainly would not have been

alive at the time of Leonardo's death. But Leonardo must have been

on intimate terms with the family till the end of his life, for in a

letter dated June 1. 1519, in which Fr. Melzi, writing from Amboise,

announces Leonardo's death to Giuliano da Vinci at Florence (see p.

284), he says at the end "_Datemene risposta per i Gondi_" (see

UZIELLI, _Ricerche_, passim).

Most of the other names on the list are those of well-known

Florentine families.]

1451.

Pandolfino.

1452.

Vespuccio will give me a book of Geometry.

[Footnote: See No. 844, note, p. 130.]

1453.

Marcantonio Colonna at Santi Apostoli.

[Footnote: In July 1506 Pope Julius II gave Donna Lucrezia della

Rovere, the daughter of his sister Lucchina, in marriage to the

youthful Marcantonio Colonna, who, like his brothers Prospero and

Fabrizio, became one of the most famous Captains of his family. He

gave to him Frascati and made him a present of the palazzo he had

built, when Cardinal, near the church of Santi Apostoli which is now

known as the Palazzo Colonna (see GREGOROVIUS, _Gesch. der Stadt

Rom._ Vol. VIII, book XIV I, 3. And COPPI, _Mem. Colonnesi_ p.

251).]

1454.

A box, a cage,-- A square, to make the bird [Footnote 2: Vasari

states that Leonardo invented mechanical birds which moved through

the air. Compare No. 703.],-- Pandolfino's book, mortar [?],-- Small

knives, Venieri for the

[Footnote: Much of No. 1444 is repeated in this memorandum.]

Pen for ruling, stone,--star,--

To have the vest dyed, Alfieri's tazza,--

The Libraries, the book on celestial

phenomena,--

Lactantius of the go to the house of

Daldi,-- the Pazzi,

Book from Maestro small box,--

Paolo Infermieri,--

Boots, shoes and small gimlet,--

hose,

Lac, .......,--

An apprentice for .....,--

models,

Grammar of Lo- the amount of the

renzo de' Medici, ...

Giovanni del Sodo .....

for...,--the broken

Sansovino, the....

Piero di Cosino the wings,--

[Footnote 16: _Pier di Cosimo_ the well known Florentine painter

1462-1521. See VASARI, _Vite_ (Vol. IV, p. 134 ed. Sansoni 1880)

about Leonardo's influence on Piero di Cosimo's style of painting.]

Filippo and Lorenzo [Footnote 17: _Filippo e Lorenzo_; probably the

painters Filippino Lippi and Lorenzo di Credi. L. di Credi's

pictures and Vasari's history of that painter bear ample evidence to

his intimate relations with Leonardo.],--A ruler-,-- Spectacles,--to

do the..... again,--Tomaso's book,--Michelagnolo's chain,--The

multiplication of roots,--Of the bow and strinch,--The map of the

world from Benci,-- Socks,--The clothes from the custom-house

officier,--Cordova leather,--Market books, --waters of

Cronaca,--waters of Tanaglino..., --the caps,--Rosso's mirror; to

see him make it,--1/3 of which I have 5/6,--on the celestial

phenomena, by Aristotle [Footnote 36: _Meteora_. See No. 1448,

25.],--boxes of Lorenzo di Pier Francesco [Footnote 37: _Lorenzo di

Pier Francesco_ and his brother _Giovanni_ were a lateral branch of

the _Medici_ family and changed their name for that of

Popolani.],--Maestro Piero of the Borgo,--To have my book

bound,--Show the book to Serigatto,-- and get the rule of the clock

[Footnote 41: Possibly this refers to the clock on the tower of the

Palazzo Vecchio at Florence. In February 1512 it had been repaired,

and so arranged as to indicate the hours after the French manner

(twelve hours a. m. and as many p. m.).],--

ring,--nutmeg,--gum,--the square,--Giovan' Batista at the piazza,

de' Mozzi,--Giovanni Benci has my book and jaspers,--brass for the

spectacles.

1455.

Search in Florence for......

1456.

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.]

1457.

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

not any opening here for discussing this question of the cartoon, it

seemed to me important to point out that the character of the

writing in this note does not confirm the opinion hitherto held that

the Royal Academy cartoon was the one described by Vasari, but, on

the contrary, supports the hypothesis put forward by Mr. Marks.]

Notes on pupils (1458-1468.)

1458.

Giacomo came to live with me on St.-Mary Magdalen's[Footnote: _Il di

della Maddalena._ July 22.] day, 1490, aged 10 years. The second day

I had two shirts cut out for him, a pair of hose, and a jerkin, and

when I put aside some money to pay for these things he stole 4

_lire_ the money out of the purse; and I could never make him

confess, though I was quite certain of the fact.--Thief, liar,

obstinate, glutton.

The day after, I went to sup with Giacomo Andrea, and the said

Giacomo supped for two and did mischief for four; for he brake 3

cruets, spilled the wine, and after this came to sup where I ....

Item: on the 7th day of September he stole a silver point of the

value of 22 soldi from Marco[Footnote 6: _Marco_, probably

Leonardo's pupil Marco d'Oggionno; 1470 is supposed to be the date

of his birth and 1540 of his death.

_Che stava con meco._ We may infer from this that he left the master

shortly after this, his term of study having perhaps expired.] who

was living with me, 4 _lire_ this being of silver; and he took it

from his studio, and when the said Marco had searched for it a long

while he found it hidden in the said Giacomo's box 4 _lire_.

Item: on the 26th January following, I, being in the house of Messer

Galeazzo da San Severino [Footnote 9: Galeazzo. See No. 718 note.],

was arranging the festival for his jousting, and certain footmen

having undressed to try on some costumes of wild men for the said

festival, Giacomo went to the purse of one of them which lay on the

bed with other clothes, 2 lire 4 S, and took out such money as was

in it.

Item: when I was in the same house, Maestro Agostino da Pavia gave

to me a Turkish hide to have (2 lire.) a pair of short boots made of

it; this Giacomo stole it of me within a month and sold it to a

cobbler for 20 soldi, with which money, by his own confession, he

bought anise comfits.

Item: again, on the 2nd April, Giovan Antonio [Footnote 16: Giovan

Antonio, probably Beltraffio, 1467 to 1516.] having left a silver

point on a drawing of his, Giacomo stole it, and this was of the

value of 24 soldi (1 lira 4 S.)

The first year-

A cloak, 2 lire,

6 shirts, 4 lire,

3 jerkins, 6 lire,

4 pairs of hose, 7 lire 8 soldi,

1 lined doublet, 5 lire,

24 pairs of shoes, 6 lire 5 soldi,

A cap, 1 lira,

laces, 1 lira.

[Footnote: Leonardo here gives a detailed account not only of the

loss he and others incurred through Giacomo but of the wild tricks

of the youth, and we may therefore assume that the note was not made

merely as a record for his own use, but as a report to be forwarded

to the lad's father or other responsible guardian.]

1459.

On the last day but one of September;

Thursday the 27th day of September Maestro Tommaso came back and

worked for himself until the last day but one of February. On the

18th day of March, 1493, Giulio, a German, came to live with

me,--Lucia, Piero, Leonardo.

On the 6th day of October.

1460.

1493. On the 1st day of November we settled accounts. Giulio had to

pay 4 months; and Maestro Tommaso 9 months; Maestro Tommaso

afterwards made 6 candlesticks, 10 days' work; Giulio some

fire-tongs 15 days work. Then he worked for himself till the 27th

May, and worked for me at a lever till the 18th July; then for

himself till the 7th of August, and for one day, on the fifteenth,

for a lady. Then again for me at 2 locks until the 20th of August.

1461.

On the 23rd day of August, 12 lire from Pulisona. On the 14th of

March 1494, Galeazzo came to live with me, agreeing to pay 5 lire a

month for his cost paying on the l4th day of each month.

His father gave me 2 Rhenish florins.

On the l4th of July, I had from Galeazzo 2 Rhenish florins.

1462.

On the 15th day of September Giulio began the lock of my studio

1494.

1463.

Saturday morning the 3rd of August 1504 Jacopo the German came to

live with me in the house, and agreed with me that I should charge

him a carlino a day.

1464.

1511. On the 26th of September Antonio broke his leg; he must rest

40 days.

[Footnote: This note refers possibly to Beltraffio.]

1465.

I left Milan for Rome on the 24th day of September, 1513, with

Giovanni [Footnote 2: _Giovan;_ it is not likely that Leonardo

should have called Giovan' Antonio Beltraffio at one time Giovanni,

as in this note and another time Antonio, as in No. 1464 while in

No. 1458 l. 16 we find _Giovan'Antonio_, and in No. 1436, l.6

_Beltraffio_. Possibly the Giovanni here spoken of is Leonardo's

less known pupil Giovan Pietrino (see No. 1467, 5).], Francesco di

Melzi [Footnote 2,3: _Francesco de' Melzi_ is often mentioned, see

Nos. 1350.], Salai [Footnote 3: _Salai_. See No. 1519 note.],

Lorenzo and il Fanfoia.

[Footnote 4: _Lorenzo_. See No. 1351, l. 10 (p. 408). Amoretti gives

the following note in _Mem. Stor. XXIII:_ 1505. _Martedi--sera a di

14 d'aprile. Venne Lorenzo a stare con mecho: disse essere d'eta

d'anni 17 .. a di 15 del detto aprile ebbi scudi 25 d'oro dal

chamerlingo di Santa Maria nuova._ This, he asserts is derived from

a MS. marked S, in quarto. This MS. seems to have vanished and left

no trace behind; Amoretti himself had not seen it, but copied from a

selection of extracts made by Oltrocchi before the Leonardo MSS.

were conveyed to Paris on the responsibility of the first French

Republic. Lorenzo, by this, must have been born in 1487. The

sculptor Lorenzetto was born in 1490. Amoretti has been led by the

above passage to make the following absurd observations:

_Cotesto Lorenzo, che poi gli fu sempre compagno, almeno sin che

stette in Italia, sarebb' egli Lorenzo Lotto bergamasco? Sappiamo

essere stato questo valente dipintore uno de'bravi scolari del

Vinci_ (?).

_Il Fafoia_, perhaps a nickname. Cesare da Sesto, Leonardo's pupil,

seems to have been in Rome in these years, as we learn from a

drawing by him in the Louvre.

1466.

On the 3rd day of January.

Benedetto came on the 17th of October; he stayed with me two months

and 13 days of last year, in which time he earned 38 lire, 18 soldi

and 8 dinari; he had of this 26 lire and 8 soldi, and there remains

to be paid for the past year 12 lire 10 soldi.

Giodatti (?) came on the 8th day of September, at 4 soldi a month,

and stayed with me 3 months and 24 days, and earned 59 lire 14 soldi

and 8 dinari; he has had 43 lire, 4 soldi, there remains to pay 16

lire, 10 soldi and 8 dinari.

Benedetto, 24 grossoni.

[Footnote: This seems to be an account for two assistants. The name

of the second is scarcely legible. The year is not given. The note

is nevertheless of chronological value. The first line tells us the

date when the note was registered, January 3d, and the observations

that follow refer to events of the previous month 'of last year'

_(dell'anno passato)_. Leonardo cannot therefore have written thus

in Florence where the year was, at that period, calculated as

beginning in the month of March (see Vol. I, No. 4, note 2). He must

then have been in Milan. What is more important is that we thus

learn how to date the beginning of the year in all the notes written

at Milan. This clears up Uzielli's doubts: _A Milano facevasi

cominciar l'anno ab incarnatione, cioe il 25 Marzo e a nativitate,

cioe il 25 Decembre. Ci sembra probabile che Leonardo dovesse

prescegliere lo stile che era in uso a Firenze._ (_Ricerche_, p. 84,

note.)]

1467.

Gian Maria 4,

Benedetto 4,

Gian Pietro [5] 3,

Salai 3,

Bartolomeo 3,

Gherardo 4.

1468.

Salai, 20 lire,

Bonifacio, 2 lire,

Bartolomeo, 4 lire,

Arrigo [Harry], 15 lire.

Quotations and notes on books and authors (1469-1508).

1469.

Book on Arithmetic [Footnote 1: _"La nobel opera de arithmethica ne

la qual se tracta tute cosse amercantia pertinente facta & compilata

per Piero borgi da Veniesia", in-40. In fine: "Nela inclita cita di

Venetia a corni. 2 augusto. 1484. fu imposto fine ala presente

opera." Segn. a--p. quaderni. V'ha pero un' altra opera simile di

Filippo Calandro, 1491. E da consultarsi su quest' ultimo, Federici:

Memorie Trevigiane, Fiore di virtu: pag. 73. "Libricciuolo composto

di bello stile verso il 1320 e piu volte impresso nel secolo XV

(ristampato poi anche piu tardi). Gli accademici della Crusca lo

ammettono nella serie dei testi di lingua. Vedasi Gamba, Razzolini,

Panzer, Brunet, Lechi, ecc._ (G. D'A.)], 'Flowers of Virtue',

Pliny [Footnote 2: _"Historia naturale di C. Plinio Secondo,

tradocta di lingua latina in fiorentina per Christophoro Laudino &

Opus Nicolai Jansonis gallici imp. anno salutis M.CCCC.LXXVI.

Venetiis" in-fol.--Diogene Laertio. Incomincia: "El libro de la vita

de philosophi etc.: Impressum Venetiis" per Bernardinum Celerium de

Luere, 1480", in-40_ (G. D'A.).], 'Lives of the Philosophers',

The Bible [Footnote 3: _"La Bibia volgare historiata (per Nicolo di

Mallermi) Venecia ... M.CCCC.LXXI in kalende di Augusto (per

Vindelino de Spira)" 2 vol. in-fol. a 2 col. di 50 lin,; od altra

ediz. della stessa versione del Mallermi, Venetia 1471, e sempre:

"Venecia per Gabriel de Piero 1477," in-fol.; 2 vol.; Ottavio Scotto

da Modoetia 1481," "Venetia 1487 per Joan Rosso Vercellese," "1490

Giovanni Ragazo di Monteferato a instantia di Luchanthonio di

Giunta, ecc."--Lapidario Teofrasto? Mandebille: "Le grand

lapidaire," versione italiana ms.?... Giorgio Agricola non puo

essere, perche nato nel 1494, forse Alberto Magno: de mineralibus.

Potrebbe essere una traduzione del poema latino (Liber lapidum seu

de gemmis) di Marbordio Veterio di Rennes (morto nel 1123 da lui

stesso tradotto in francese dal greco di Evao re d'Arabia celebre

medico che l'aveva composto per l'imperatore Tiberio. Marbodio

scrisse il suo prima per Filippo Augusto re di Francia. Vi sono

anche traduzioni in prosa. "Il lapidario o la forza e la virtu delle

pietre preziose, delle Erbe e degli Animali."_ (G. D'A.)],

'Lapidary',

'On warfare' [Footnote 4: _Il Vegezio? ... Il Frontino? ... Il

Cornazzano?... Noi crediamo piuttosto il Valturio. Questo libro

doveva essere uno de'favoriti di Leonardo poiche libro di scienza e

d'arte nel tempo stesso._], 'Epistles of Filelfo',

[Footnote: The late Marchese Girolamo d'Adda published a highly

valuable and interesting disquisition on this passage under the

title: _Leonardo da Vinci e la sua Libreria, note di un bibliofilo

(Milano 1873. Ed. di soli 75 esemplari_; privately printed). In the

autumn of 1880 the Marchese d'Adda showed me a considerable mass of

additional notes prepared for a second edition. This, as he then

intended, was to come out after the publication of this work of

mine. After the much regretted death of the elder Marchese, his son,

the Marchese Gioachino d'Adda was so liberal as to place these MS.

materials at my disposal for the present work, through the kind

intervention of Signor Gustavo Frizzoni. The following passages,

with the initials G. d'A. are prints from the valuable notes in that

publication, the MS. additions I have marked. I did not however

think myself justified in reproducing here the acute and interesting

observations on the contents of most of the rare books here

enumerated.]

[Footnote: 1467. 5. See No. 1465, 2.]

The first decade, [5] 'On the preservation of health', The third

decade, [6] Ciecho d'Ascoli, The fourth decade, [7] Albertus Magnus,

Guido, [8] New treatise on rhetorics, Piero Crescentio, [9]

Cibaldone, 'Quadriregio', [10] Aesop,

Donato, [Footnote 11: "_Donatus latine & italice: Impressum Venetiis

impensis Johannis Baptistae de Sessa anno_ 1499, _in_-4°".-- "_El

Psalterio de David in lingua volgare (da Malermi Venetia nel

M.CCCC.LXXVI,_" in-fol. s. n._ (G. D'A.)] Psalms,

Justinus, [Footnote 12: Compare No. 1210, 48.--_La versione di

Girolamo Squarzafico:_ "_Il libro di Justino posto diligentemente in

materna lingua. Venetia ale spesse (sic) di Johane de Colonia &

Johane Gheretze_ ... l477," _in-fol._--"_Marsilii Ficini, Theologia

platonica, sive de animarum immortalitate, Florentine, per Ant.

Misconimum_ 1482," _in-fol., ovvero qualche versione italiana di

questo stesso libro, ms._ (G. D'A.)] 'On the immortality of the

soul,

Guido [Footnote 13: _Forse_ "_la Historia Trojana Guidonis_" _od il

_"_manipulus_" _di_ "_Guido da Monterocherii_"_ ma piu probabilmente

_"_Guido d'Arezzo_"_ il di cui libro: _"_Micrologus, seu disciplina

artis musicae_"_ poteva da Leonardo aversi ms.; di questi ne

esistono in molto biblioteche, e fu poi impresso nel 1784 dal

Gerbert._

_Molte sono le edizione dei sonetti di Burchiello Fiorentino,

impresse nel secolo XV. La prima e piu rara e recercata:_

"_Incominciano li sonetti, ecc. (per Christoforo Arnaldo)_"_, in_-4°

_senza numeri, richiami o segnature, del_ 1475, _e fors' anche del_

1472, _secondo Morelli e Dibdin, ecc._ (G. D'A.)] Burchiello,

'Doctrinale' [Footnote 14: _Versione italiana det "Doctrinal de

Sapience" di Guy de Roy, e foris'anche l'originale in lingua

francese.--_

_Di Pulci Luigi, benche nell' edizione:_ "_Florentiae_ 1479" _in_-4°

si dica: _"_Il Driadeo composto in rima octava per Lucio Pulcro_"_

Altre ediz, del secolo XV, _"_Florentie Miscomini_ 1481, _in_-40,

_Firenze, apud S. Jacob, de Ripoli,_ 1483,_" _in_-4° _e "Antoni de

Francesco,_ 1487," _in_-4° _e Francesco di Jacopo_ 1489,_in_-4° _ed

altre ancora di Venezia e senza alcuna nota ecc._ (G. D'A.)]

Driadeo,

Morgante [Footnote 15: _Una delle edizioni del Morgante impresse nel

secolo XV, ecc.--_

_Quale delle opere di Francesco Petrarca, sarebbe malagevole

l'indovinare, ma probabilmente il Canzoniere._ (G. D'A.)] Petrarch.

John de Mandeville [Footnote 16: _Sono i viaggi del cavaliere_

"_Mandeville_" _gentiluomo inglese. Scrisse il suo libro in lingua

francese. Fu stampato replicatamente nel secolo XV in francese, in

inglese ed in italiano ed in tedesco; del secolo XV ne annoverano

forse piu di 27 edizioni, di cui ne conosciamo_ 8 _in francese,

quattro in latino, sei in tedesco e molte altre in volgare._ (G.

D'A.)]

'On honest recreation' [Footnote 17: _Il Platina (Bartolomeo Sacchi)

la versione italiana_ "_de la honesta voluptate, & valetudine (& de

li obsonnii) Venetia (senza nome di tipografo)_ 1487," _piccolo

in_-4° _gotico._ (G. D'A.)--Compare No. 844, 21.]

Manganello, [Footnote 18: _Il Manganello: Satira eccessivamente

vivace contro le donne ad imitazione della Sesta di Giovenale.

Manganello non e soltanto il titolo del libricino, sua ben anche il

nome dell'autore ch'era un_ "_milanese_". _Di questo libercolo

rarissimo, che sembra impresso a Venezia dallo Zoppino (Nicolo

d'Aristotile detto il), senza data, ma dei primissimi anni del

secolo XVI, e forse piu antico, come vedremo in appresso, non se ne

conoscono fra biblioteche pubbliche e private che due soli esemplari

in Europa._ (G. D'A.)]

The Chronicle of Isidoro, [Footnote 19: "_Cronica desidero_",

_sembra si deggia leggere piuttosto_ "_cronico disidoro_"_; ed in

questo caso s'intenderebbe la_ "_cronica d'Isidoro_" _tanto in voga

a quel tempo_ "_Comenza la Cronica di Sancto Isidoro menore con

alchune additione cavate del testo & istorie de la Bibia & del libro

di Paulo Oroso .... Impresso in Ascoli in casa del reverendo misser

Pascale ..... per mano di Guglielmo de Linis de Alamania

M.CCCC.LXXVII_" _in_-4° _di_ 157 _ff. E il primo libro impresso ad

Ascoli e l'edizione principe di questa cronica in oggi assai rara.

Non lo e meno l'edizione di Cividal del Friuli_, 1480, _e quella ben

anche di Aquila_, 1482, _sempre in-_4°. _Vedasi Panzer, Hain, Brunet

e P. Dechamps._ (G. D'A.)]

The Epistles of Ovid, [Footnote 20: "_Le pistole di Ovidio tradotte

in prosa. Napoli Sixt. Riessinger_", _in_-4°, _oppure:_ "_Epistole

volgarizzate_ 1489," _in_-4° _a due col._ "_impresse ne la cita

(sic) di Bressa per pre: Baptista de Farfengo,_" _(in ottave) o:_

"_El libro dele Epistole di Ovidio in rima volgare per messere

Dominico de Monticelli toschano. Brescia Farfengo_," _in_-4° _got.

(in rima volgare)_, 1491, _ed anche la versione di Luca Pulci.

Firenze, Mischomini_, 1481, _in_-4°. (G. D'A.) ]

Epistles of Filelfo, [Footnote 21: See l. 4.]

Sphere, [Footnote 22: "_Jo: de Sacrobusto_," _o_ "_Goro Dati_," _o_

"_Tolosano da Colle_" _di cui molteplici edizioni del secolo XV._

(G. D'A.)]

The Jests of Poggio, [Footnote 23: _Tre edizioni delle facezie del

Poggio abbiamo in lingua italiana della fine del secolo XV, tutte

senza data. "Facetie de Poggio fiorentino traducte de latino in

vulgare ornatissimo," in-40, segn. a--e in caratteri romani;

l'altra: "Facetie traducte de latino in vulgare," in-40, caratteri

gotici, ecc._ (G. D'A.)] Chiromancy, [Footnote 24: "_Die Kunst

Cyromantia etc, in tedesco. 26 ff. di testo e figure il tutte

eseguito su tavole di legno verso la fine del secolo XV da Giorgio

Schapff". Dibdin, Heinecken, Sotheby e Chatto ne diedero una lunga

descrizione; i primi tre accompagnati da fac-simili. La data 1448

che si legge alla fine del titolo si riferisce al periodo della

composizione del testo, non a quello della stampa del volume benche

tabellario. Altri molti libri di Chiromanzia si conoscono di quel

tempo e sarebbe opera vana il citarli tutti._ (G. D'A.)]

Formulary of letters, [Footnote 25: _Miniatore Bartolomeo.

"Formulario de epistole vulgare missive e responsive, & altri fiori

de ornali parlamenti al principe Hercule d'Esti ecc. composto ecc.

Bologna per Ugo di Rugerii," in-40, del secolo XV. Altra edizione di

"Venetia Bernardino di Novara, 1487" e "Milano per Joanne Angelo

Scinzenzeler 1500," in-40._ (G. D'A.)

Five books out of this list are noted by Leonardo in another MS.

(Tr. 3): _donato, -- lapidario, -- plinio, -- abacho, -- morgante._]

1470.

Nonius Marcellus, Festus Pompeius, Marcus Varro.

[Footnote: Nonius Marcellus and Sextus Pompeius Festus were Roman

grammarians of about the fourth century A. D. Early publications of

the works of Marcellus are: _De proprietate sermonis, Romae_ (about

1470), and 1471 (place of publication unknown). _Compendiosa

doctrina, ad filium, de proprietate sermonum._ Venice, 1476. BRUNET,

_Manuel du libraire_ (IV, p. 97) notes: _Le texte de cet ancien

grammairien a ete reimprime plusieurs fois a la fin du XVe siecle,

avec ceux de Pomponius Festus et de Terentius Varro. La plus

ancienne edition qui reunisse ces trois auteurs est celle de Parme,

1480 ... Celles de Venise, 1483, 1490, 1498, et de Milan, 1500,

toutes in-fol., ont peu de valeur._]

1471.

Map of Elephanta in India which Antonello Merciaio has from maestro

Maffeo;--there for seven years the earth rises and for seven years

it sinks;--Enquire at the stationers about Vitruvius.

1472.

See 'On Ships' Messer Battista, and Frontinus 'On Acqueducts'

[Footnote 2: 2. _Vitruvius de Arch., et Frontinus de Aquedoctibus._

Florence, 1513.--This is the earliest edition of Frontinus.--The

note referring to this author thus suggests a solution of the

problem of the date of the Leicester Manuscript.].

[Footnote: Compare No. 1113, 25.]

1473.

Anaxagoras: Every thing proceeds from every thing, and every thing

becomes every thing, and every thing can be turned into every thing

else, because that which exists in the elements is composed of those

elements.

1474.

The Archimedes belonging to the Bishop of Padua.

[Footnote: See No. 1421, 1. 3, 6 and Vol. I, No. 343.]

1475.

Archimedes gave the quadrature of a polygonal figure, but not of the

circle. Hence Archimedes never squared any figure with curved sides.

He squared the circle minus the smallest portion that the intellect

can conceive, that is the smallest point visible.

[Footnote: Compare No. 1504.]

1476.

If any man could have discovered the utmost powers of the cannon, in

all its various forms and have given such a secret to the Romans,

with what rapidity would they have conquered every country and have

vanquished every army, and what reward could have been great enough

for such a service! Archimedes indeed, although he had greatly

damaged the Romans in the siege of Syracuse, nevertheless did not

fail of being offered great rewards from these very Romans; and when

Syracuse was taken, diligent search was made for Archimedes; and he

being found dead greater lamentation was made for him by the Senate

and people of Rome than if they had lost all their army; and they

did not fail to honour him with burial and with a statue. At their

head was Marcus Marcellus. And after the second destruction of

Syracuse, the sepulchre of Archimedes was found again by Cato[25],

in the ruins of a temple. So Cato had the temple restored and the

sepulchre he so highly honoured.... Whence it is written that Cato

said that he was not so proud of any thing he had done as of having

paid such honour to Archimedes.

[Footnote: Where Leonardo found the statement that Cato had found

and restored the tomb of Archimedes, I do not know. It is a merit

that Cicero claims as his own (Tusc. V, 23) and certainly with a

full right to it. None of Archimedes' biographers --not even the

diligent Mazzucchelli, mentions any version in which Cato is named.

It is evidently a slip of the memory on Leonardo's part. Besides,

according to the passage in Cicero, the grave was not found _'nelle

ruine d'un tempio'_--which is highly improbable as relating to a

Greek--but in an open spot (H. MULLER-STRUBING).--See too, as to

Archimedes, No. 1417.

Leonardo says somewhere in MS. C.A.: _Architronito e una macchina di

fino rame, invenzlon d' Archimede_ (see _'Saggio'_, p. 20).]

1477.

Aristotle, Book 3 of the Physics, and Albertus Magnus, and Thomas

Aquinas and the others on the rebound of bodies, in the 7th on

Physics, on heaven and earth.

1478.

Aristotle says that if a force can move a body a given distance in a

given time, the same force will move half the same body twice as far

in the same time.

1479.

Aristotle in Book 3 of the Ethics: Man merits praise or blame solely

in such matters as lie within his option to do or not to do.

1480.

Aristotle says that every body tends to maintain its nature.

1481.

On the increase of the Nile, a small book by Aristotle. [Footnote:

_De inundatione Nili_, is quoted here and by others as a work of

Aristotle. The Greek original is lost, but a Latin version of the

beginning exists (Arist. Opp. IV p. 213 ed. Did. Par.).

In his quotations from Aristotle Leonardo possibly refers to one of

the following editions: _Aristotelis libri IV de coelo et mundo; de

anima libri III; libri VIII physi- corum; libri de generatione et

corruptione; de sensu et sensato... omnia latine, interprete

Averroe, Venetiis 1483_ (first Latin edition). There is also a

separate edition of _Liber de coelo et mundo_, dated 1473.]

1482.

Avicenna will have it that soul gives birth to soul as body to body,

and each member to itself.

[Footnote: Avicenna, see too No. 1421, 1. 2.]

1483.

Avicenna on liquids.

1484.

Roger Bacon, done in print. [Footnote: The earliest printed edition

known to Brunet of the works of Roger Bacon, is a French

translation, which appeared about fourty years after Leonardo's

death.]

1485.

Cleomedes the philosopher.

[Footnote: Cleomede. A Greek mathematician of the IVth century B. C.

We have a Cyclic theory of Meteorica by him. His works were not

published before Leonardo's death.]

1486.

CORNELIUS CELSUS.

The highest good is wisdom, the chief evil is suffering in the body.

Because, as we are composed of two things, that is soul and body, of

which the first is the better, the body is the inferior; wisdom

belongs to the better part, and the chief evil belongs to the worse

part and is the worst of all. As the best thing of all in the soul

is wisdom, so the worst in the body is suffering. Therefore just as

bodily pain is the chief evil, wisdom is the chief good of the soul,

that is with the wise man; and nothing else can be compared with it.

[Footnote: _Aulus Cornelius Celsus_, a Roman physician, known as the

Roman Hippocrates, probably contemporary with Augustus. Only his

eight Books 'De Medicina', are preserved. The earliest editions are:

_Cornelius Celsus, de medicina libr. VIII._, Milan 1481 Venice 1493

and 1497.]

1487.

Demetrius was wont to say that there was no difference between the

speech and words of the foolish and ignorant, and the noises and

rumblings of the wind in an inflated stomach. Nor did he say so

without reason, for he saw no difference between the parts whence

the noise issued; whether their lower parts or their mouth, since

one and the other were of equal use and importance.

[Footnote: Compare Vol. I, No. 10.]

1488.

Maestro Stefano Caponi, a physician, lives at the piscina, and has

Euclid _De Ponderibus_.

1489.

5th Book of Euclid. First definition: a part is a quantity of less

magnitude than the greater magnitude when the less is contained a

certain number of times in the greater.

A part properly speaking is that which may be multiplied, that is

when, being multiplied by a certain number, it forms exactly the

whole. A common aggregate part ...

Second definition. A greater magnitude is said to be a multiple of a

less, when the greater is measured by the less.

By the first we define the lesser [magnitude] and by the second the

greater is defined. A part is spoken

1490.

of in relation to the whole; and all their relations lie between

these two extremes, and are called multiples.

1491.

Hippocrates says that the origin of men's sperm derives from the

brain, and from the lungs and testicles of our parents, where the

final decocture is made, and all the other limbs transmit their

substance to this sperm by means of expiration, because there are no

channels through which they might come to the sperm.

[Footnote: The works of Hippocrates were printed first after

Leonardo's death.]

1492.

Lucretius in his third [book] 'De Rerum Natura'. The hands, nails

and teeth were (165) the weapons of ancient man.

They also use for a standard a bunch of grass tied to a pole (167).

[Footnote: _Lucretius, de rerum natura libri VI_ were printed first

about 1473, at Verona in 1486, at Brescia in 1495, at Venice in 1500

and in 1515, and at Florence in 1515. The numbers 165 and 167 noted

by Leonardo at the end of the two passages seem to indicate pages,

but if so, none of the editions just mentioned can here be meant,

nor do these numbers refer to the verses in the poems of Lucretius.]

1493.

Ammianus Marcellinus asserts that seven hundred thousand volumes of

books were burnt in the siege of Alexandria in the time of Julius

Cesar.

[Footnote: _Ammiani Marcellini historiarum libri qui extant XIII_,

published at Rome in 1474.]

1494.

Mondino says that the muscles which raise the toes are in the

outward side of the thigh, and he adds that there are no muscles in

the back [upper side] of the feet, because nature desired to make

them light, so as to move with ease; and if they had been fleshy

they would be heavier; and here experience shows ...

[Footnote: _"Mundini anatomia. Mundinus, Anothomia (sic). Mundini

praestantissimorum doctorum almi studii ticiensis (sic) cura

diligentissime emendata. Impressa Papiae per magistrum Antonium de

Carfano 1478," in-fol.; ristampata: "Bononiae Johan. de Noerdlingen,

1482," in-fol.; "Padova per Mattheum Cerdonis de Vuindischgretz,

1484," in-40; "Lipsia, 1493," in-40; "Venezia, 1494," in-40 e ivi

"1498," con fig. Queste figure per altro non sono, come si e

preteso, le prime che fossero introdotte in un trattato di Notamia.

Nel 'fasciculus Medicinae' di Giovanni Ketham, che riproduce

l''Anatomia' del Mundinus, impresso pure a Venezia da J. e G. de

Gregoriis, 1491, in-fol., contengonsi intagli in legno (si vogliono

disegnati non gia incisi da Andrea Mantegna) di grande dimensione, e

che furono piu volte riprodotti negli anni successivi. Quest'

edizione del "fasciculus" del 1491, sta fra nostri libri e potrebbe

benissimo essere il volume d'Anatomia notato da Leonardo._ (G.

D'A.)]

1495.

Of the error of those who practice without knowledge;--[3] See first

the 'Ars poetica' of Horace [5].

[Footnote: A 3-5 are written on the margin at the side of the title

line of the text given, entire as No. 19]

1496.

The heirs of Maestro Giovanni Ghiringallo have the works of

Pelacano.

1497.

The catapult, as we are told by Nonius and Pliny, is a machine

devised by those &c.

[Footnote: _Plinius_, see No. 946.]

1498.

I have found in a history of the Spaniards that in their wars with

the English Archimedes of Syracuse who at that time was living at

the court of Ecliderides, King of the Cirodastri. And in maritime

warfare he ordered that the ships should have tall masts, and that

on their tops there should be a spar fixed [Footnote 6: Compare No.

1115.] of 40 feet long and one third of a foot thick. At one end of

this was a small grappling iron and at the other a counterpoise; and

there was also attached 12 feet of chain; and, at the end of this

chain, as much rope as would reach from the chain to the base of the

top, where it was fixed with a small rope; from this base it ran

down to the bottom of the mast where a very strong spar was attached

and to this was fastened the end of the rope. But to go on to the

use of his machine; I say that below this grappling iron was a fire

[Footnote 14: Compare No. 1128.] which, with tremendous noise, threw

down its rays and a shower of burning pitch; which, pouring down on

the [enemy's] top, compelled the men who were in it to abandon the

top to which the grappling-iron had clung. This was hooked on to the

edges of the top and then suddenly the cord attached at the base of

the top to support the cord which went from the grappling iron, was

cut, giving way and drawing in the enemy's ship; and if the

anchor--was cast ...

[Footnote: Archimedes never visited Spain, and the names here

mentioned cannot be explained. Leonardo seems to quote here from a

book, perhaps by some questionable mediaeval writer. Prof. C. Justi

writes to me from Madrid, that Spanish savants have no knowledge of

the sources from which this story may have been derived.]

1499.

Theophrastus on the ebb and flow of the tide, and of eddies, and on

water. [Footnote: The Greek philosophers had no opportunity to study

the phenomenon of the ebb and flow of the tide and none of them

wrote about it. The movement of the waters in the Euripus however

was to a few of them a puzzling problem.]

1500.

Tryphon of Alexandria, who spent his life at Apollonia, a city of

Albania (163). [Footnote: Tryphon of Alexandria, a Greek Grammarian

of the time of Augustus. His treatise TtaOY Aeijecu appeared first

at Milan in 1476, in Constantin Laskaris's Greek Grammar.]

1501.

Messer Vincenzio Aliprando, who lives near the Inn of the Bear, has

Giacomo Andrea's Vitruvius.

1502.

Vitruvius says that small models are of no avail for ascertaining

the effects of large ones; and I here propose to prove that this

conclusion is a false one. And chiefly by bringing forward the very

same argument which led him to this conclusion; that is, by an

experiment with an auger. For he proves that if a man, by a certain

exertion of strength, makes a hole of a given diameter, and

afterwards another hole of double the diameter, this cannot be made

with only double the exertion of the man's strength, but needs much

more. To this it may very well be answered that an auger

1503.

of double the diameter cannot be moved by double the exertion, be-

cause the superficies of a body of the same form but twice as large

has four times the extent of the superficies of the smaller, as is

shown in the two figures a and n.

1504.

OF SQUARING THE CIRCLE, AND WHO IT WAS THAT FIRST DISCOVERED IT BY

ACCIDENT.

Vitruvius, measuring miles by means of the repeated revolutions of

the wheels which move vehicles, extended over many Stadia the lines

of the circumferences of the circles of these wheels. He became

aware of them by the animals that moved the vehicles. But he did not

discern that this was a means of finding a square equal to a circle.

This was first done by Archimedes of Syracuse, who by multiplying

the second diameter of a circle by half its circumference produced a

rectangular quadrilateral equal figure to the circle [Footnote 10:

Compare No. 1475.].

[Footnote: _Vitruvius_, see also Nos. 1113 and 343.]

1505.

Virgil says that a blank shield is devoid of merit because among the

people of Athens the true recognition confirmed by testimonies ...

[Footnote: The end of the text cannot be deciphered.]

1506.

In Vitolone there are 805 conclusions [problems] in perspective.

[Footnote: _(Witelo, Vitellion, Vitellon) Vitellione. E da vedersi

su questo ottico prospettico del secolo XIII Luca Pacioli, Paolo

Lomazzo, Leonardo da Vinci, ecc. e fra i moderni il Graesse, il

Libri, il Brunet, e le Memorie pubblicate dal principe Boncompagni,

e 'Sur l' orthographe du nom et sur la patrie de Witelo (Vitellion)

note de Maximilien Curtze, professeur a Thorn', ove sono descritti i

molti codici esistenti nelle biblioteche d' Europa. Bernardino Baldi

nelle sue 'Vite de'matematici', manoscritto presso il principe

Boncompagni, ha una biografia del Vitellione. Questo scritto del

Baldi reca la data 25 agosto 1588. Discorsero poi di lui Federigo

Risnerio e Giovanni di Monteregio nella prefazione dell' Alfagrano,

Giovanni Boteone, Girolamo Cardano, 'De subtilitate', che nota gli

errori di Vitellione. Visse, secondo il Baldi, intorno all' anno

1269, ma secondo il Reinoldo fioriva nel 1299, avendo dedicata la

sua opera ad un frate Guglielmo di Monteca, che visse di que' tempi.

Intorno ad un manoscritto dell' ottica di Vitellione, citato da Luca

Pacioli v'ha un secondo esemplare del Kurlz, con aggiunte del

principe Boncompagni, e le illustrazioni del cav. Enrico Narducci.

Nel 'Catalogo di manoscritti' posseduti da D. Baldassare de'

principi Boncompagni, compilato da esso Narducci, Roma, 1862, sotto

al n. 358, troviamo citato: Vitellio, 'Perspectiva', manoscritto del

secolo XIV. La 'Prospettiva di Vitelleone' (sic) Thuringo-poloni e

citata due volte da Paolo Lomazzo nel Trattato dell' arte della

pittura. Vitellio o Vitello o Witelo. Il suo libro fu impresso in

foglio a Norimberga nel 1535; la secondo edizione e del 1551, sempre

di Norimberga, ed una terza di Basilea, 1572._ (See _Indagini

Storiche ... sulla Libreria-Visconteo-Sforzesca del Castello di

Pavia ... per cura di_ G. D'A., _Milano 1879. P. I. Appendice p.

113. 114)._]

1507.

Vitolone, at Saint Mark's.

[Footnote: _Altro codice di cotesta 'Prospettiva' del Vitolone

troviamo notato nel 'Canone bibliographico di Nicolo V', conservato

alla, Magliabecchiana, in copia dell' originale verosimilmente

inviato dal Parentucelli a Cosimo de' Medici (Magliab. cod. segn. 1

VII, 30 carte da 193 a 198). Proviene dal Convento di San Marco e lo

aveva trascritto frate Leonardo Scruberti fiorentino, dell' ordine

dei predicatori che fu anche bibliotecario della Medicea pubblica in

San Marco_ (See _Indagini Storiche ... per cura di_ G. D'A. _Parte

I, p. 97)._]

1508.

How this proposition of Xenophon is false.

If you take away unequal quantities from unequal quantities, but in

the same proportion, &c. [Footnote: Xenophon's works were published

several times during Leonardo's lifetime.]

Inventories and accounts (1509--1545).

1509.

On the 28th day of April I received from the Marchesino 103 lire and

12 dinari. [Footnote: Instead of the indication of the year there is

a blank space after _d'aprile_.--Marchesino Stange was one of

Lodovico il Moro's officials.--Compare No. 1388.]

1510.

On the 10th day of July 1492 in 135

Rhenish florins 1. 445

in dinari of 6 soldi 1. 112 S 16

in dinari of 5 1/2 soldi 1. 29 S 13

9 in gold and 3 scudi 1. 53

-----------------------------

1. 811 in all

1511.

On the first day of February, lire 1200.

1512.

The hall towards the court is 126 paces long and 27 braccia wide.

1513.

The narrow cornice above the hall lire 30.

The cornice beneath that, being one for each picture, lire 7, and

for the cost of blue, gold, white, plaster, indigo and glue 3 lire;

time 3 days.

The pictures below these mouldings with their pilasters, 12 lire

each.

I calculate the cost for smalt, blue and gold and other colours at 1

1/2 lire.

The days I calculate at 3, for the invention of the composition,

pilasters and other things.

1514.

Item for each vault 7 lire

outlay for blue and gold 3 1/2

time, 4 days

for the windows 1 1/2

The cornice below the windows 16 soldi per braccio

item for 24 pictures of Roman history 14 lire each

The philosophers 10 lire

the pilasters, one ounce of blue 10 soldi

for gold 15 soldi

Total 2 and 1/2 lire.

1515.

The cornice above lire 30

The cornice below lire 7

The compositions, one with another lire 13

1516.

Salai, 6 lire ... 4 soldi ... 10 soldi for a chain;--

On the l4th of March I had 13 lire S. 4; 16 lire remain.

1517.

How many braccia high is the level of the walls?--

123 braccia

How large is the hall?

How large is the garland?

30 ducats.

On the 29th day of January, 1494

cloth for hose lire 4 S 3

lining S 16

making S 8

to Salai S 3

a jasper ring S 13

a sparkling stone S 11

to Caterina S 10

to Caterina S 10

1518.

The wheel lire 7

the tire lire 10

the shield lire 4

the cushion lire 8

the ends of the axle-tree lire 2

bed and frame lire 30

conduit lire 10

S.K.M.II.2 4a]

1519.

Parsley 10 parts

mint 1 part

thyme 1 part

Vinegar ... and a little salt two pieces of canvas for Salai.

[Footnote: This note, of about the year 1494, is the earliest

mention of Salai, and the last is of the year 1513 (see No. 1465,

3). From the various notes in the MSS. he seems to have been

Leonardo's assistant and keeper only, and scarcely himself a

painter. At any rate no signed or otherwise authenticated picture by

him is known to exist. Vasari speaks somewhat doubtfully on this

point.]

1520.

On Tuesday I bought wine for morning [drinking]; on Friday the 4th

day of September the same.

[Footnote: This note enables us to fix the date of the Manuscript,

in which it is to be found. In 1495 the 4th of September fell on a

Friday; the contents of the Manuscript do not permit us to assign it

to a much earlier or later date (Compare No. 1522, and Note).]

1521.

The cistern ... at the Hospital, --2 ducats, --beans, --white maize,

--red maize, --millet, --buckwheat, --kidney beans, --beans, --peas.

1522.

EXPENSES OF THE INTERMENT OF CATERINA.

For the 3 lbs of tapers 27 S

For the bier 8 S

A pall over the bier 12 S

For bearing and placing the cross 4 S

For bearing the body 8 S

For 4 priests and 4 clerks 20 S

Bell, book and sponge 2 S

For the gravediggers 16 S

To the senior 8 S

For a license from the authorities 1 S

106 S

The doctor 2 S

Sugar and candles 12 S

120 S

[Footnote: See Nos. 1384 and 1517.]

1523.

Salai's cloak, the 4th of April 1497.

4 braccia of silver cloth l. 15 S 4

green velvet to trim it l. 9 S --

binding l.-- S 9

loops l.-- S 12

the making l. 1 S 5

binding for the front l.-- S 5

stitching _________

here are 13 grossoni of his l. 26 S 5

Salai stole the soldi.

1524.

On Monday I bought 4 braccia of cloth lire 13 S 14 1/2 on the 17th

of, October 1497.

1525.

Memorandum. That on the 8th day of April 1503, I, Leonardo da Vinci,

lent to Vante, miniature painter 4 gold ducats, in gold. Salai

carried them to him and gave them into his own hand, and he said he

would repay within the space of 40 days.

Memorandum. That on the same day I paid to Salai 3 gold ducats which

he said he wanted for a pair of rose-coloured hose with their

trimming; and there remain 9 ducats due to him--excepting that he

owes me 20 ducats, that is 17 I lent him at Milan, and 3 at Venice.

Memorandum. That I gave Salai 21 braccia of cloth to make a shirt,

at 10 soldi the braccio, which I gave him on the 20th day of April

1503.

[Footnote: With regard to Vante or Attavante, the miniature painter

(not Nanni as I formerly deciphered this name, which is difficult to

read; see _Zeitschrift fur Bild. Kunst_, 1879, p. 155), and Vasari,

Lives of Frate Giovanni da Fiesole, of Bartolommeo della Gatta, and

of Gherardo, _miniatore._ He, like Leonardo, was one of the

committee of artists who, in 1503, considered the erection and

placing of Michel Angelo's David. The date of his death is not

known; he was of the same age as Leonardo. Further details will be

found in '_Notizie di Attavante miniatore, e di alcuni suoi lavori_'

(Milanese's ed. of Vasari, III, 231-235).]

1526.

On the morning of San Peter's day, June 29th, 1504, I took io

ducats, of which I gave one to Tommaso my servant to spend.

On Monday morning 1 florin to Salai to spend on the house.

On Thursday I took 1 florin for my own spending.

Wednesday evening 1 florin to Tommaso, before supper.

Saturday morning 1 florin to Tommaso.

Monday morning 1 florin less 10 soldi.

Thursday to Salai 1 florin less 10 soldi.

For a jerkin, 1 florin.

For a jerkin And a cap 2 florins.

To the hosier, 1 florin.

To Salai, 1 florin.

Friday morning, the 19th of July, 1 florin, less 6 soldi. I have 7

fl. left, and 22 in the box.

Tuesday, the 23th day of July, 1 florin to Tommaso.

Monday morning, to Tommaso 1 florin.

[Wednesday morning 1 fl. to Tommaso.]

Thursday morning the 1st day of August 1 fl. to Tommaso.

Sunday, the 4th of August, 1 florin.

Friday, the 9th day of August 1504, I took 10 ducats out of the box.

1527.

1504. On the 9th day of August, 1504, I took 10 florins in gold[2]

... [3] on Friday the 9th day of August fifteen grossoni that is fl.

5 S 5 ... given to me 1 florin in gold on the 12th day of August [4]

... on the 14th of August, 32 grossoni to Tommaso. On the 18th of

the same 5 grossoni to Salai. On the 8th of September 6 grossoni to

the workman to spend; that is on the day of our Lady's birth. On the

16th day of September I gave 4 grossoni to Tommaso: on a Sunday.

[Footnote: In the original, the passage given as No. 1463 is written

between lines 2 and 3 of this text, and it is possible that the

entries in lines 3 and 4 refer to the payments of Jacopo Tedesco,

who is there mentioned. The first words of these lines are very

illegible.]

[Footnote 7: _Al fattore._ Il Fattore, was, as is well known, the

nick-name of Giovanni Franceso Penni, born in Florence in 1486, and

subsequently a pupil of Raphael's. According to Vasari he was known

by it even as a boy. Whether he is spoken of in this passage, or

whether the word Fattore should be translated literally, I will not

undertake to decide. The latter seems to me more probably right.]

1528.

On the day of October, 1508, I had 30 scudi; 13 I lent to Salai to

make up his sister's dowry, and 17 I have left.

1529.

Memorandum of the money I have had from the King as my salary from

July 1508 till April next 1509. First 100 scudi, then 70, then 50,

then 20 and then 200 florins at 48 soldi the florin. [Footnote:

Compare No. 1350 and 1561.]

1530.

Saturday the 2nd day of March I had from Santa Maria Novella 5 gold

ducats, leaving 450. Of these I gave 2 the same day to Salai, who

had lent them to me. [Footnote: See '_Conto corrente di Leonardo da

Vinci con lo Spedale di S. Maria Nuova_' [1500 a 1507, 1513-1520]

published by G. UZIELLI, _Ricerche intorno a Leonardo da Vinci,

Firenze,_ 1872, pp. 164, 165, 218 and 219. The date here given by

Leonardo does not occur in either of the accounts.]

1531.

Thursday, the eighth day of June, I took 17 grossoni, 18 soldi; on

the same Thursday in the morning I gave to Salai 22 soldi for the

expenses.

1532.

To Salai 4 grossoni, and for one braccio of velvet, 5 lire, and 1/2;

viz. 10 soldi for loops of silver; Salai 14 soldi for binding, the

making of the cloak 25 soldi. [Footnote: Compare No. 1523.]

1533.

I gave to Salai 93 lire 6 soldi, of which I have had 67 lire and

there remain 26 lire 6 soldi.

1534.

To Salai S 42

2 dozen of laces S 8

for papers S 3 d 8

a pair of shoes S 14

for velvet S 14

a sword and knife S 21

to the barber S 11

to Paolo for a ... S 20

For having his fortune told S 6

1535.

On Friday morning,

one florin to Salai to

spend; 3 soldi received

bread S.. d

wine S.. d

grapes S.. d

mushrooms S.. d

fruit S.. d

[Footnote 6: Compare Nos. 1545, l. 4 and 5,

with similar entries for horse's fodder.]

bran S.. d

at the barber's S.. d

for shoes S.. d

1536.

On Thursday morning one florin.

1537.

On Saint Ambrose's day from the morning to Thursday 36 soldi.

1538.

The moneys I have had from Ser Matteo;

first 20 grassoni, then on 13 occasions 3 f.

and then 61 grassoni, then 3, and then 33;

46 soldi 12 grossoni.

1539.

For paper S 18

for canvas S 30

for paper S 10 d 19

Total S 73

1540.

20 pounds of German

blue, at one ducat the pound lire 80 S d

60 pounds of white, S..

the pound lire 15 S d

1 1/2 pound at 4 S the pound lire 6 S d

2 pounds of cinnabar at

S 18 the pound lire 1 S 16 d

6 pounds of green at S 12

the pound lire 3 S 12 d

4 pounds of yellow at S 12

the pound lire 2 S 8 d

1 pound of minium at S 8

the pound lire 0 S 8 d

4 pounds of ... at S 2

the pound lire 0 S 8 d

6 pounds of ochre at S 1

the pound lire 0 S 6 d

black ... at S 2 the pound

for 20 lire 2 S 0 d

wax to make the stars

29 pounds at S--the pound lire 0 S 0 d

40 pounds of oil for painting

at 5 soldi the pound lire 10 S 0 d

Altogether lire 120 d 18

without the gold. 18

tin for putting on the gold 120 18

58

1541.

Two large hatchets and one very small one, 8 brass spoons, 4

tablecloths, 2 towels, 15 small napkins, 2 coarse napkins, 2 coarse

cloths, 2 wrappers, 3 pairs of sheets, 2 pairs new and 1 old.

1542.

Bed 7 0 S

ring 7 0

crockery 2 5

gardener 1 2

..... 2 8

porters 2 1

glasses 1

fuel 3 6

a lock 1

Section title: Miscellaneous Notes.

1543.

New tin-ware 3 pairs of sheets

6 small bowls, each of 4 breadths,

6 bowls, 2 small sheets,

2 large dishes, 2 tablecloths and 1/2,

2 dishes medium size, 16 coarse cloths,

2 small ones 8 shirts,

Old tin-ware 9 napkins,

3 small bowls, 2 hand-towels.

4 bowls,

3 square stones,

2 small bowls,

1 large bowl,

1 platter,

4 candlesticks,

1 small candlestick.

1544.

Hose S 40

straw S 60

wheat S 42

wine S 54

bread S 18

meat S 54

eggs S 5

salad S 3

the Barber S 2 d 6

horses S 1

1545.

Sunday

meat S 10 d

wine S 12 d

bran S 5 d 4

herbs S 10 d

buttermilk S 4 d 4

melon S 3 d

bread S 3 d 1

____________________

Monday S 9 8

____________________

..... S 6 d

wine S 12 d

bran S 9 d 4

buttermilk S 4 d 4

herbs S 8 d

____________________

Tuesday S d

_____________________

meat S 0 d 8

wine S 12 d

bread S 3 d

meal S 5 d 4

herbs S 8 d

_____________________

Wednesday

_____________________

wine S 5 d

melon S 2 d

meal S 5 d 4

vegetables S 8

Notes by unknown persons among the MSS. (1546-1565).

1546.

Miseracione divina sacro sancte Romane ecclesie tituli n cardinalis

2wulgariter nuncupatus venerabili religioso fratri Johanni Mair

d'Nustorf 3ordinis praedicatorum provintie teutonie (?) conventus

Wiennensis capellano 4 nostro commensali salutem in dno sempiternam

Religione zelus rite ac in [ferite?] 5honestas aliarumque

laudabilium probitatis et virtutum merita quibus apud nos fide

6digno commendationis testimonio Magistri videlicet ordinis felicis

recordacionis Leonardi de 7Mansuetis de Perusio sigillo suo ... us

dans tibi ad ... opera virtutum comen(salem)? 8 locum et tempus

success(ores) cujus similiter officium ministratus qui

praedecessoris sui donum (?) 9confirmavit et de novo dedit

aliorumque plurima [laudatis] qui opera tua laudant 10nos inducunt

ut tibi (?) reddamus ad gratiam liberalem hinc est quod nos

cupientes. [Footnote: The meaning of this document, which is very

difficult to decipher, and is written in unintelligible Latin, is,

that Leonardo di Mansuetis recommends the Rev. Mair of Nusdorf,

chaplain at Vienna, to some third person; and says also that

something, which had to be proved, has been proved. The rest of the

passages on the same leaf are undoubtedly in Leonardo's hand. (Nos.

483, 661, 519, 578, 392, 582, 887 and 894.)]

1547.

Johannes Antonius di Johannes Ambrosius de Bolate. He who lets time

pass and does not grow in virtue, the more I think of it the more I

grieve. No man has it in him to be virtuous who will give up honour

for gain. Good fortune is valueless to him who knows not toil. The

man becomes happy who follows Christ. There is no perfect gift

without great suffering. Our glories and our triumphs pass away.

Foul lust, and dreams, and luxury, and sloth have banished every

virtue from the world; so that our Nature, wandering and perplexed,

has almost lost the old and better track. Henceforth it were well to

rouse thyself from sleep. The master said that lying in down will

not bring thee to Fame; nor staying beneath the quilts. He who,

without Fame, burns his life to waste, leaves no more vestige of

himself on earth than wind-blown smoke, or the foam upon the sea.

[Footnote: From the last sentence we may infer that this text is by

the hand of a pupil of Leonardo's.-- On the same sheet are the notes

Nos.1175 and 715 in Leonardo's own handwriting.]

1548.

On the morning of Santo Zanobio the

29th of May 1504, I had from Lionardo Vinci

15 gold ducats and began to spend them.

to Mona Margarita S 62 d 4

to remake the ring S 19 d 8

clothes S 13

good beef S 4

eggs S 6

debt at the bank S 7

velvet S 12

wine S 6 d 4

meat S 4

mulberries S 2 d 4

mushrooms S 3 d 4

salad S 1

fruit S 1 d 4

candles S 3

... S 1

flour S 2

Sunday 198 8

bread S 6

wine S 9 d 4

meat S 7

soup S 2

fruit S 3 d 4

candles S 3 d

Monday 31

bread S 6 d 4

meat S 10 d 8

wine S 9 d 4

fruit S 4

soup S 1 d 8

32

1549.

Tuesday

bread S 6

meat S 11

wine S 7

fruit S 9

soup S 2

salad S 1

[Footnote 1548 and 1549: On the same sheet is the text No. 1015 in Leonardo's own handwriting.]

1550.

To Monna Margarita S 5

to Tomaso S 14

to Monna Margarita d 5 S 2

on the day of San Zanobi

left ... after

payment d 13 S 2 d 4

of Monna Margarita

altogether d 14 S 5 d 4

1551.

On Monday, the l3th of February, I lent lire S 7 to Lionardo to

spend, Friday d 7.

[Footnote: This note is followed by an account very like the one

given as No. 1549.]

1552.

Stephano Chigi, Canonico ..., servant of the honorable Count Grimani

at S. Apostoli.

[Footnote: Compare No. 674, 21-23.]

1553.

Having become anxious ... Bernardo di Simone, Silvestro di Stefano,

Bernardo di Jacopo, Francesco di Matteo Bonciani, Antonio di

Giovanni Ruberti, Antonio da Pistoia.... Antonio; He who has time

and waits for time, will lose his friends and his money.

1554.

Reverend Maestro, Domino Giovanni, I spoke to Maestro Zacaria as a

brother about this business, and I made him satisfied with the

arrangement that I had wished; that is, as regards the commission

that I had from the parties and I say that between us there is no

need to pay money down, as regard the pictures of the ...

1555.

Of things seen through a mist that which is nearest its farthest

limit will be least visible, and all the more so as they are more

remote.

1556.

Theodoricus Rex Semper Augustus.

1557.

Either you say Hesperia alone, and it will mean Italy, or you add

ultima, and it will mean Spain. Umbria, part of Tuscany.

[Footnote: The notes in Greek, Nos. 1557, 1558 and 1562 stand in

close connection with each other, but the meaning of some words is

very doubtful, and a translation is thus rendered impossible.]

1558.

[Footnote: Greek Characters]

1559.

Canonica of ... on the 5th of July 1507; my dearly beloved mother,

sisters and cousin I herewith inform you that thanks to God I am ...

about the sword which I ... bring it to Maso at the piazza ... and I

will settle the business of Piero so that ...

[Footnote: AMORETTI, _Mem. Stor. XXIV_, quotes the first three lines

of this letter as by Leonardo. The character of the writing however

does not favour this hypothesis, and still less the contents. I

should regard it rather a rough draft of a letter by young Melzi. I

have not succeeded in deciphering completely the 13 lines of this

text. Amoretti reads at the beginning _Canonica di Vaprio_, but

_Vaprio_ seems to me a very doubtful reading.]

1560.

Ut bene respondet Naturae ars docta! dedisset

Vincius, ut tribuit cetera - sic animam -

Noluit ut similis magis haec foret: altera sic est:

Possidet illius Maurus amans animam.

[Footnote: These three epigrams on the portrait of Lucrezia

Crivelli, a picture by Leonardo which must have been lost at a very

early date, seem to have been dedicated to Leonardo by the poet.

Leonardo used the reverse of the sheet for notes on geometry.]

Hujus quam cernis nomen Lucretia, Divi Omnia cui larga contribuere

manu. Rara huic forma data est; pinxit Leonardos, amavit Maurus,

pictorum primus hic, ille ducum.

Naturam, ac superas hac laesit imagine Divas Pictor: tantum hominis

posse manum haec doluit, Illae longa dari tam magnae tempera formae,

Quae spatio fuerat deperitura brevi.

1561.

Egidius Romanus on the formation of the human body in the mother's

womb [Footnote 1: _Liber magistri Egidii de pulsibus matrice

conipositus (cum commentario Gentilis de Fulgineo)_ published in

1484 at Padova, in 1494 and in 1514 at Venice, and in 1505 at

Lyons.].

[Footnote 2:2. This text appears to be in a handwriting different

from that in the note, l. 1. Here the reading is not so simple as

AMORETTI gave it, _Mem. Star. XXV: A Monsieur Lyonard Peintre du Roy

pour Amboyse_. He says too that this address is of the year 1509,

and Mr. Ravaisson remarks: "_De cette suscription il semble qu'on

peut inferer que Leonard etait alors en France, a la cour de Louis

XII ... Pour conclure je crois qu'il n'est pas prouve que Leonard de

Vinci n'ait pas fait un voyage de quelques mois en France sous Louis

XII, entre le printemps de 1509 et l'automne de_ 1510."--I must

confess that I myself have not succeeded in deciphering completely

this French writing of which two words remain to me doubtful. But so

much seems to be quite evident that this is not an address of a

letter at all, but a certificate or note. _Amboise_[l. 6] I believe

to be the signature of Charles d'Amboise the Governor of Milan. If

this explanation is the right one, it can be easily explained by the

contents of Nos. 1350 and 1529. The note, line 1, was perhaps added

later by another hand; and Leonardo himself wrote afterwards on the

same sheet some geometrical explanations. I must also point out that

the statement that this sheet belongs to the year 1509 has

absolutely no foundation in fact. There is no clue whatever for

giving a precise date to this note.] To Monsieur le Vinci,--the

horses of the king's equerry.... Continue the payment to Ms.

Lyonard, Painter to the King.

[6] Amboise.

1562.

[Footnote: Greek Characters]

1563.

Memorandum to Maestro Lionardo to have ... the state of Florence.

1564.

To remind your Excellency that Ridolfo Manini brought to Florence a

quantity of crystal besides other stones such as are ...

1565.

XVI C. 6 de Ciuitate Dei, se Antipodes.

[Footnote: A facsimile of this note, which refers to a well known

book by St. Augustin, is given on page 254.]

1566.

Leonardo's Will.

Be it known to all persons, present and to come that at the court of

our Lord the King at Amboise before ourselves in person, Messer

Leonardo da Vinci painter to the King, at present staying at the

place known as Cloux near Amboise, duly considering the certainty of

death and the uncertainty of its time, has acknowledged and declared

in the said court and before us that he has made, according to the

tenor of these presents, his testament and the declaration of his

last will, as follows. And first he commends his soul to our Lord,

Almighty God, and to the Glorious Virgin Mary, and to our lord Saint

Michael, to all the blessed Angels and Saints male and female in

Paradise.

Item. The said Testator desires to be buried within the church of

Saint Florentin at Amboise, and that his body shall be borne thither

by the chaplains of the church.

Item. That his body may be followed from the said place to the said

church of Saint Florentin by the _collegium_ of the said church,

that is to say by the rector and the prior, or by their vicars and

chaplains of the church of Saint Denis of Amboise, also the lesser

friars of the place, and before his body shall be carried to the

said church this Testator desires, that in the said church of Saint

Florentin three grand masses shall be celebrated by the deacon and

sub-deacon and that on the day when these three high masses are

celebrated, thirty low masses shall also be performed at Saint

Gregoire.

Item. That in the said church of Saint Denis similar services shall

be performed, as above.

Item. That the same shall be done in the church of the said friars

and lesser brethren.

Item. The aforesaid Testator gives and bequeaths to Messer Francesco

da Melzo, nobleman, of Milan, in remuneration for services and

favours done to him in the past, each

[Footnote: See page 420.]

and all of the books the Testator is at present possessed of, and

the instruments and portraits appertaining to his art and calling as

a painter.

Item. The same Testator gives and bequeaths henceforth for ever to

Battista de Vilanis his servant one half, that is the moity, of his

garden which is outside the walls of Milan, and the other half of

the same garden to Salai his servant; in which garden aforesaid

Salai has built and constructed a house which shall be and remain

henceforth in all perpetuity the property of the said Salai, his

heirs and successors; and this is in remuneration for the good and

kind services which the said de Vilanis and Salai, his servants have

done him in past times until now.

Item. The said Testator gives to Maturina his waiting woman a cloak

of good black cloth lined with fur, a ... of cloth and two ducats

paid once only; and this likewise is in remuneration for good

service rendered to him in past times by the said Maturina.

Item. He desires that at his funeral sixty tapers shall be carried

which shall be borne by sixty poor men, to whom shall be given money

for carrying them; at the discretion of the said Melzo, and these

tapers shall be distributed among the four above mentioned churches.

Item. The said Testator gives to each of the said churches ten lbs.

of wax in thick tapers, which shall be placed in the said churches

to be used on the day when those said services are celebrated.

Item. That alms shall be given to the poor of the Hotel-Dieu, to the

poor of Saint Lazare d'Amboise and, to that end, there shall be

given and paid to the treasurers of that same fraternity the sum and

amount of seventy soldi of Tours.

Item. The said Testator gives and bequeaths to the said Messer

Francesco Melzo, being present and agreeing, the remainder of his

pension and the sums of money which are owing to him from the past

time till the day of his death by the receiver or treasurer-general

M. Johan Sapin, and each and every sum of money that he has already

received from the aforesaid Sapin of his said pension, and in case

he should die before the said Melzo and not otherwise; which moneys

are at present in the possession of the said Testator in the said

place called Cloux, as he says. And he likewise gives and bequeaths

to the said Melzo all and each of his clothes which he at present

possesses at the said place of Cloux, and all in remuneration for

the good and kind services done by him in past times till now, as

well as in payment for the trouble and annoyance he may incur with

regard to the execution of this present testament, which however,

shall all be at the expense of the said Testator.

And he orders and desires that the sum of four hundred scudi del

Sole, which he has deposited in the hands of the treasurer of Santa

Maria Nuova in the city of Florence, may be given to his brothers

now living in Florence with all the interest and usufruct that may

have accrued up to the present time, and be due from the aforesaid

treasurer to the aforesaid Testator on account of the said four

hundred crowns, since they were given and consigned by the Testator

to the said treasurers.

Item. He desires and orders that the said Messer Francesco de Melzo

shall be and remain the sole and only executor of the said will of

the said Testator; and that the said testament shall be executed in

its full and complete meaning and according to that which is here

narrated and said, to have, hold, keep and observe, the said Messer

Leonardo da Vinci, constituted Testator, has obliged and obliges by

these presents the said his heirs and successors with all his goods

moveable and immoveable present and to come, and has renounced and

expressly renounces by these presents all and each of the things

which to that are contrary. Given at the said place of Cloux in the

presence of Magister Spirito Fieri vicar, of the church of Saint

Denis at Amboise, of M. Guglielmo Croysant priest and chaplain, of

Magister Cipriane Fulchin, Brother Francesco de Corion, and of

Francesco da Milano, a brother of the Convent of the Minorites at

Amboise, witnesses summoned and required to that end by the

indictment of the said court in the presence of the aforesaid M.

Francesco de Melze who accepting and agreeing to the same has

promised by his faith and his oath which he has administered to us

personally and has sworn to us never to do nor say nor act in any

way to the contrary. And it is sealed by his request with the royal

seal apposed to legal contracts at Amboise, and in token of good

faith.

Given on the XXIIIrd day of April MDXVIII, before Easter.

And on the XXIIIrd day of this month of April MDXVIII, in the

presence of M. Guglielmo Borian, Royal notary in the court of the

bailiwick of Amboise, the aforesaid M. Leonardo de Vinci gave and

bequeathed, by his last will and testament, as aforesaid, to the

said M. Baptista de Vilanis, being present and agreeing, the right

of water which the King Louis XII, of pious memory lately deceased

gave to this same de Vinci, the stream of the canal of Santo

Cristoforo in the duchy of Milan, to belong to the said Vilanis for

ever in such wise and manner that the said gentleman made him this

gift in the presence of M. Francesco da Melzo, gentleman, of Milan

and in mine.

And on the aforesaid day in the said month of April in the said year

MDXVIII the same M. Leonardo de Vinci by his last will and testament

gave to the aforesaid M. Baptista de Vilanis, being present and

agreeing, each and all of the articles of furniture and utensils of

his house at present at the said place of Cloux, in the event of the

said de Vilanis surviving the aforesaid M. Leonardo de Vinci, in the

presence of the said M. Francesco Melzo and of me Notary &c. Borean.