Sketches and Drawings of Emblems and Rebuses

[A musical staff containing six notes: G, E, F, G, A, E] In the solfège system used by Leonardo, these notes correspond to the syllables: Sol, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Mi.

[A row of pictographic rebuses including a heart, a bird, a bellows, and other objects]

The following line is the plain-text transcription of the rebus above, written in mirror script (transcribed here in readable left-to-right order).

Love makes me solace original: "sol la mi" (solace/solaces me) among the few faithful: Rome original: "Amore mi fa sol la mi tra i rari fidi : roma". This is a complex rebus where the musical notes 'Sol-La-Mi' are read as the Italian words 'sollami' (solace me).