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Ashburnham II (ex-Ms B)

Ashburnham II

Images: Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France, Paris · All credits

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Front cover of the bound volume
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Back cover of the bound volume
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Spine of the bound volume
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Edge of the closed volume with endband
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Fore-edge of the closed volume
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Head or tail edge of the closed volume
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Inside front cover with Institut de France library labels
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Marbled endpaper
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Blank flyleaf
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Blank flyleaf
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Blank flyleaf
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Title-leaf: Notes & Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci
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Guard leaf: 1891 note restoring the manuscript to the Institut
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Weapons & FortificationOrnamental spearheads and polearm blades
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Weapons & FortificationBlank verso with library stamps and shelfmarks
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Weapons & FortificationOrnamental polearm heads, maces, and a war-hammer
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Weapons & FortificationBlank verso with Bibliothèque Nationale stamp
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Weapons & FortificationWeapon heads and shaft fittings on blue paper
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Blank verso with Bibliotheque Nationale stamp
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Weapons & FortificationStudies of ornate mace and polearm heads
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Blank verso with Bibliotheque Nationale stamp
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Weapons & FortificationBound cylindrical devices and a fantastical beast head
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Near-blank verso with faint show-through
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Weapons & FortificationCurved sabres with beast-head hilts and a bound tube
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Blank guard leaf with Bibliotheque Nationale stamp
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Machines & DevicesLong open trough or hull and a small latticed drum
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Machines & DevicesLifting arm with bucket, a rigged boat and scaling ladders
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ArchitectureRoof framing, a radiating burst, a pulley pole and ramps
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Machines & DevicesCranes, wheeled carts, pulleys and geared wheels
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Machines & DevicesBoat and ship-hull studies in perspective
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ArchitectureStudies of Centralized Domed Churches
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ArchitectureCentralized Church with Interior Section and Plan
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Physics & MechanicsStatics of Weights on Beams and Triangular Supports
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ArchitectureStudies for a Ribbed Dome and Its Drum
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ArchitectureCentralized Church with Radiating Chapels and Nave
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Machines & DevicesLifting and Hoisting Devices
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Machines & DevicesPivoting mechanisms with rod linkages and a standard-bearer
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Machines & DevicesGalley and boat sketches with a forked implement
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Figure StudiesMale nude with sword, a hooked device, and looping cords
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Weapons & FortificationWar machine with a covered assault vehicle and a lattice frame
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Machines & DevicesFaded leaf: a housed mechanism and a timber hoisting derrick
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Weapons & FortificationWheeled war chariot, rigging with winch, and a derrick
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Machines & DevicesBoats fitted with mast-and-arm lifting devices
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Language & LatinColumns of vocabulary words with a grotesque profile head
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FlightInsect-wing studies, calculations, and a caricatured figure
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Blank guard leaf
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Blank guard leaf
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Blank guard leaf
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Marbled endpaper with leather spine
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Marbled endpaper facing the spine