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The Leicester codex (Hammer codex)
Codex Leicester. English & Italian
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- Creator
- Leonardo da Vinci ; edited by Francesco Maria Caleca ; English translation by David Edwards May
- Other Title
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- Codice Leicester
- Included Title
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- Codex Leicester
- Format
- Books
- Languages
- English, Italian
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Roma : TREC edizioni pregiati, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- 337 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 50 cm
- OCLC
- ocn786033604
- Incorporates reproductions of notes and drawings of Leonardo, composed ca. 1506-ca. 1513, compiled in a manuscript that was purchased in 1717 by Thomas Coke, later Earl of Leicester, and held in his family's library at Holkham Hall; subsequently purchased, in 1980, by Armand Hammer, then bequeathed to the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center; currently owned by Bill Gates (purchased 1994) and renamed Codex Leicester.
- "1999 numbered and personalised luxury edition copies exclusive for Italy. Reproduction of coloured plates on special paper 'acquerello' of Cartiere Fedrigoni Paper-Mill in Verona. Printed by EBS in San Giovanni Lupatoto (Verona). Hand bound in real leather and embossed in pure gold foil by L'Arte del libro in Todi (Perugia). Printed during February 2006"--Colophon.
- Sheets of tissue paper cover each plate, printed with numbers referring to the texts and notes.
- Bound in leather and embossed in gold and issued in wooden containers.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Texts of manuscript reproduction and transcription in Italian, with English translation; introd., notes, and index in English, translated from Italian.
Subjects
- Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
- Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519. Codex Leicester.
- Coke, Thomas, Earl of Leicester, 1697-1759 -- Library.
- Codex Leicester.
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