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Lot 249
DA VINCI, LEONARDO Codice Trivulzuano. Trascrizioni a Cura Di ubusto Marinoni. Milan: Arcadia|Electa, 1980. One of 999 sets. Half le...
. Milan: Arcadia|Electa, 1980. One of 999 sets. Half leather text volume and vellum bound facsimile in calf-covered slipcase. 18 x 5 1/2 inches (21 x 14 cm); 243, [1] pp. text, with a facsimile of the Codex in a vellum binding fastened with toggle and leather ties, as the original. An immaculate copy.
Compiled about 1487-1490, Codex Trivulzianus records Leonardo's attempt to organize and arrange the part of the Italian language which deals with science, philosophy and academic subjects in general. Many of the words collected here derive from Latin, and almost all of them are drawn from such famous Renaissance works as Roberto Valturius' De re militari and Luigi Pulci's Vocabulista. This is an exceptional document for the study of the period of the Italian language when rules and spellings were not yet firmly established. In addition Codex Trivulzianus contains an important series of architectural drawings, which are primarily studies pertaining to a competition held to complete the construction of the Milan cathedral.
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