Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
MS Magl. XVII.4 , Dated 1617
17 un-numbered chapters without headings, 6 illustrations
Florentine provenance, from the library of the Florentine sculptor
Giovan Francesco Susini (1585-1653)
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This manuscript, dated 1617, is a partial copy based on an early unidentified Florentine manuscript made by the sculptor Giovan Francesco Susini for his own use..
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| History The early history of FM1 is unknown. |
| Physical Description Fol. [III] + fols. 1-9 + [10] + fols. 11-91 + [III], 34.4 x 24.3 cm , in folio |
| Watermark 7 chain lines, two watermarks. 1) fol. I: Zonghi 728 documented in 1599; Briquet 209 documented in Verona 1582-1596 2) fol. [II]+1-91+[III]: Zonghi 1718- 1719 documented in Fano in 1577. |
| Bibliography Steinitz, Treatise on Painting, 1958, p. 57 (B, 10); Uzielli, Ricerche intorno a Leonardo da Vinci, , p. 336; Pedretti, Commentary to the Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci by Jean Paul Richter, 1977, p. 17-18; Cole, "On the Movement of Figures in Some Early Apographs of the Abridged ‘Trattato’,” in Claire Farago (ed), Re-reading Leonardo: the Treatise on Painting Across Europe 1550-1900, 2009, pp. 107-125; Fiorani, “The Shadows of Leonardo's Annunciation and Their Lost Legacy,” in Imitation, Representation and Printing in the Italian Renaissance, Roy Eriksen and Magne Malmanger (eds), 2009), pp. 119-156; Sconza, La réception du Libro di pittura de Léonard de Vinci: de la mort de l’auteur à la publication du Trattato della pittura (Paris 1651). Ph.D. Diss. Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle Paris III and Università degli Studi di Macerata, 2007. |
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