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Name: Leonardo
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Author: Leonardo da Vinci

This companion volume accompanies the Powerhouse Museum’s exhibition on Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester, a notebook of the artist’s scientific observations and theories acquired by Bill Gates in 1994. The manuscript, originally bound in the 1600s, has its binding removed for digital reproduction. Each recto reproduces one of Leonardo’s pages, written in mirror‑script Italian with detailed marginal sketches, while the verso contains analytical discussion (not a translation). The volume also includes an introduction to Leonardo’s life but omits an index.

First publish date: 1946

Genre: Arts & Culture/Art History

Authors: Leonardo da Vinci

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