Manuscript

fn1IMG

LDE FN1

Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
MS II. III. 278, Datable to the 17th century

351 numbered chapters without headings,  48 illustrations
Table of Contents

Precetti di prospettiva e pittura di Lionardo da Vinci

Florentine provenance, from the monastery of the Badia Fiorentina

This seventheenth-century manuscript is a copy of one of the early Florentine manuscripts based on FM2.

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Analysis
This seventheenth-century manuscript is a copy of one of the early Florentine manuscripts based on FM2.
History
The early history of FN1 is unknown. In 1825 it was owned by Poirot.
Physical Description
fols. II + 1r - 96v + II 29 x 21 cm , in quarto, fols. 2-87 Leonardo's Treatise on Painting; fols. 88r-96v "Tavola di Prospettiva e pittura. Parte 2a" (Table of Contents).
Watermark
Bibliography
Steinitz, Treatise on Painting, 1958, p. 57 (B, 12); Uzielli, Ricerche intorno a Leonardo da Vinci, 1901, p. 336-337; Barone, “Cassiano dal Pozzo's manuscript copy of the Trattato: new evidence of editorial procedures and responses to Leonardo in the seventeenth century” Raccolta Vinciana, 35 (2011), pp. 223-286.
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