LEONARDO DA VINCI

NOTES AND SKETCHES

ARCHITECTURE

Civil, Military, and Naval

UNPUBLISHED SHEETS, REPRODUCED FROM THE ORIGINALS

PRESERVED

IN THE LIBRARY OF WINDSOR CASTLE

Publication honored

by the Subscription of the Ministry of Public Instruction and Fine Arts

PARIS

ÉDOUARD ROUVEYRE, PUBLISHER

76, RUE DE SEINE, 76

1901

original: "MDCCCCI"

This title page introduces a significant late 19th-century effort to catalog and disseminate Leonardo da Vinci's technical drawings. The "Ministry of Public Instruction and Fine Arts" refers to the French government body that oversaw education and cultural heritage during the Third Republic.