Details

Subject(s)

• Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519—Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc—Facsimiles [Browse]
• Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519—Manuscripts—Facsimiles [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Italian—California—Los Angeles—Facsimiles [Browse]
• Codex Leicester [Browse]

Related name

• Pedretti, Carlo [Browse]
• Hammer, Armand, 1898-1990 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Facsimiles [Browse]

Notes

• Title from text volume.
• Facsimile in Italian, written in reverse script.
• Foreword by Armand Hammer.
• "In addition to the facsimile of the Codex Hammer, the present publication includes the facsimile of the recto and verso of a sheet of figure studies (ʻHammer 20') ... dating from the same time as the Codex, c. 1508-10. The outline of a doorway [shown in a reproduced tracing above this statement] which frames one of the figures is drawn with a metal point and is invisible in the reproduction."--Notarized colophon sheet.
• In solander case of dark brown leather, with raised bands, title stamped in gold on spine, and publisher's device blind stamped on cover.
• Includes a text volume (lx, 219, [1] p. : ill. ; 45 cm.), a notarized colophon sheet ([4] p., [2] p. of plates : 1 ill., 2 facsims. ; 45 cm.), and facsimile ([72] p. : facsims. ; 30 cm.).
• Includes indexes.
• "The original edition is limited to 963 numbered copies plus a special series of thirty-five copies reserved ... and numbered I to XXXV"--Notarized colophon sheet.
• SAX copy: Not numbered.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-196).

Other title(s)

Codex Leicester.

OCLC

22066500

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