Manuscript

m4IMG

LDE M4

Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana
MS H 229 inf., Datable to around 1640

 
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Copia di Capitoli diversi di Leonardo da Vinci circa le regole della pittura e modo da tenersi da dipingere prospettive ombre, lontananze, altezze, bassezze, dapresso e discosto e altro

Roman provenance, from the library of Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-1657)

This manuscript is a copy of M2, which contains notes sent from Milan to Rome around 1640.

See detailed description and analysis GO

Analysis
The manuscript was created in the library of Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-1657) around 1640. It is a copy of notes of M2, which were sent from Milan to Rome, on different topics taken from Leonardo’s original manuscripts, including hydraulics, perspective, optics, astronomy, mechanics and warfare. A section of M4 includes texts and drawings copied from Leonardo’s MS A, MS E, and MS F. The notes taken from Leonardo’s original manuscripts keep the sequence that appears in each original manuscript.
History
Workshop of Cassiano dal Pozzo, abbot Vincenzo Corazza (active 1750-1760), Biblioteca Borbonica
Physical Description
[I] + fols. 1-35 + [3] + fols. 39-97 + [3] + fols. 101-146 + [3] + fols. 149-230 + [III], 31.5 x 22 cm [text frame 24. 5 x 14 cm] , in folio
Watermark
7 chain lines, Heawood # 182, dated to 1628-1648
Bibliography
Maria Rascaglia, "I manoscritti di Leonardo e un abate del 700," Acqua. Continuul Vitae, il divenire mediterraneo nel racconto dellArte e della Scienza, Salerno, Artecnica, 2000, p. 52; Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter italicum, 1963, vol. I, p. 406; Steinitz, Treatise on Painting, 1958, p. 107 (D, 3); Alfonso Miola, Le scritture in volgare dei primi tre secoli della lingua ricercate nei Codici della Biblioteca nazionale di Napoli, I, Bologne, 1878, p. 230-231; 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; Sparti, “Cassiano dal Pozzo, Poussin, and the Making and Publication of Leonardo’s Trattato,” Journal of the Courtauld and the Warburg Institutes 66 (2003): pp. 143-188.
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