STUDY

LEAVES A OF "THE ANATOMY"

MATHIAS-DUVAL

anatomy (the branch of science concerned with the bodily structure of humans and animals), Mathias-Duval Mathias-Marie Duval (1844–1907) was a renowned French physician and anatomist who bridge the gap between medicine and art through his lectures at the Beaux-Arts., study, leaves Original: "feuillets." In manuscript studies, this refers to the individual sheets or folios of paper.

INTRODUCTION

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... we will make use of standard signs and alphabetic combinations. For example, we will write: to rejoin, you will judge, length, hills, dust, emery, plates, cause, science, etc., where Leonardo wrote: ricongugnere, gudicherai, lungeza, cholli, poluere, smeriglo, piasstre, cavsa, sscientia, etc. The editors are explaining their "critical transcription" method. They have updated Leonardo's Renaissance Italian spelling—which was often idiosyncratic, phonetic, or lacked standard punctuation—into modern Italian forms, which are translated here into English. Leonardo's original spellings are retained in the second list for comparison to show his specific linguistic habits.

We have excluded from this transcription the few words added by a different hand and the few words that Leonardo himself erased.

This second transcription, prepared in this manner, corresponds to the translation. The original text refers to a "French translation," as this 1897 edition was published in Paris to serve an international scholarly audience. This translation was made necessary by the international scope that Mr. Th. Sabachnikoff Theodor Sabachnikoff (1850–1912) was a Russian patron and collector who funded the publication of several important facsimiles of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, including the Codex on the Flight of Birds. intends for this publication, and by the desire to make the diverse manifestations of Leonardo’s genius accessible to the largest possible number of people dedicated to his study.