THE MANUSCRIPTS

OF

LEONARDO DA VINCI

original: "Les Manuscrits de Léonard de Vinci"

original: "reproduction interdite"

This is the primary title page for a landmark 19th-century project. These volumes were instrumental in bringing Leonardo’s private thoughts—originally written in his famous "mirror script" (backwards)—to a wider European audience through careful transcription and translation into French.

Manuscripts: Hand-written documents. In the context of Leonardo da Vinci, this refers to thousands of pages of personal notebooks filled with scientific observations, engineering designs, and artistic theories.