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Leonardo Da Vinci's Manuscript on the Flight of Birds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2017

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The manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci, of which a complete English translation is here offered (so far as the writer is aware, for the first time), is known as the “ Codice sul Volo degli Uccelli e Varie Altre Materie ” (Codex on the flight of birds and other matters). It is a small note-book of some 30 pages, and measures- about 8.4 inches by 6 inches. It was written at Florence in the year 1505, between March 14th* and April 15th. t A close'study cf this manuscript has been made by G. Piumati} in a very fine edition containing an excellent facsimile of the original note-book, together with (a) a printed copy folio by folio of the old Italian script in which it was written, (b) a rendering into modern Italian, and (c) a French translation by C. Ravaisson-Mollien.

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Proceedings
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 27 , Issue 150 , June 1923 , pp. 289 - 291
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1923

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References

Note on Page289* Amoretti, “ Memorie storiche su la vita, gli studi, e le opere di Leonardo da Vinci,” Milan, 1840, p. 99.

Note on Page289+ See M.S., folio 18 v., below.

Note on Page289‡ “ Codice sill Volo degli Uccelli e Varie Altre Materie,” Publicato da Teodoro Sabachnikoff. Trascrizioni e note di Giovanni Piumati, Paris, 1893.

Note on Page290* The chief source of our knowledge regarding the history of these manuscripts is derived from “ Alcune memorie di Giovanni Ambrogio Mazzenta intorno a Leonardo da Vinci e a suoi manoscritti, con illustrazioni del Prof. Gilberto Gcvi ” (II Buonarroti).

Note on Page291* I Manoscritti di Leonardo da Vinci, “ Codice sul Volo degli Uccclli,” etc., Pubblicato da Teodoro Sabachnikoff. Trascrizioni e note di Giovanni Piumati (pp. 28 and 29), Paris, 1893

Note on Page291+ J. B. Venturi, “ Essai sur les ouvrages physico-mathematiques de Leonard de Vinci,” Paris, 1796.

Note on Page291‡ M. Ludwig, “ Leonardo da Vinci, Das Buch von ler Malerei,” II. Band, p. 5.

Note on Page291§ Sabachnikoff, “ Sul Volo degli Uccelli,” etc., p. 35.