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78:, 100 and 101, were incorrectly numbered twice. The codex is a collection of Leonardo's manuscripts originating from every period in his working life, a span of 40 years from 1478 to 1518. It contains short treatises, notes and drawings on a variety of subjects from mechanics to the flight of birds. From Leonardo's text, it appears that he gathered the pages together, with the intention of ordering and possibly publishing them. Leonardo customarily used a single folio sheet of paper for each subject, so that each folio presented as a small cohesive treatise on an aspect of the subject, spread across both back and front of a number of pages. This arrangement has been lost by later book binders who have cut the folios into pages and laid them on top of each other, thereby separating many subjects into several sections and resulting in an arrangement which appears random. 1325: 20: 887: 479: 748: 1266: 421: 945: 119:
from the Royal Society along with 549 other Arundel manuscripts (half of Arundel's collection) in 1831. It was catalogued by the British Museum in 1834. It remained in the
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The manuscript was written in Italy at the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century. Most of the pages can be dated to between 1480 and 1518.
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The manuscript contains 283 paper leaves of various sizes, most of them around 22 cm × 16 cm. Only a few of the leaves are blank. Two
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The most recent facsimile was published in 1998. On 30 January 2007 the manuscript became part of the British Library's project "
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in 1667. The manuscript was first catalogued in 1681 by William Perry, a librarian, as a scientific and mathematical notebook.
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Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Norfolcianae in Collegio Greshamensi ... accurante Guilielmo Perry
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Keeping books of nature: An introduction to Leonardo da Vinci’s Codices Arundel and Leicester
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as MS Arundel 263 when the library separated from the British Museum in 1973.
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Fol 24v from Codex Arundel: study of an underwater breathing device for divers
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Leonardo da Vinci: anatomical drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle
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Arundel MS 263) is a bound collection of pages of notes written by
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The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist
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Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci (Milan)
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on the British Library's Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
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The manuscript was purchased in the early 17th century by
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The Book that closes a century and opens a new millennium
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Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
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on the British Library's Digitised Manuscripts website
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British Library
Leonardo da Vinci
codex
treatises
mechanics
geometry
Earl of Arundel
Spain
Arundel Manuscripts
folios
Codex Leicester
Codex Atlanticus
Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel
Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk
Royal Society
British Museum
British Library
Turning the Pages
Codex Leicester
List of works by Leonardo da Vinci
Codex Atlanticus
Codex Leicester
Codex Urbinas


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