Codex Atlanticus118 pages
- Letter draft, names and proverbs with military mechanisms
- Walnut oil for painting, with mechanisms and pen-trials
- Mechanism with paired end-boxes and a central rocking arm
- Water clocks and a meditation on measuring time
- The Image of the Sun in a Spherical Mirror
- Continuous proportion and the doubling of the cube
- Verso: faint machine offset and later additions
- Draft letter to don Giovanni Corno, with an eye and disk study
- Faint Sheet: Head, Frieze, Interlace Knots, and a Jotting
- Wing-membrane studies and an articulated armature
- Draft of a letter to his father; spiked-device studies
- A scheme for a canal city, with red-chalk plans
- Oblique Descent of Birds; the Childhood Kite Memory
- On Time the Consumer, with Painters' Colour Notes
- Household accounts and the death of ser Piero da Vinci, 1504
- Jests, Maxims, and Workshop Recipes (dated 23 April 1490)
- Palace with a loggia, and a verse on the rule of health
- River flow, waves and the wearing of banks
- Twenty-two quadrature figures, with memoranda and sums
- Memoranda: Cornelians, a Physician, an Ambassador
- Lune and circle quadrature, dated 7 July 1514 at the Belvedere
- Squaring the circle with lunes, and a note on a craftsman
- Squaring of lunes continued, with a theorem on the square
- Defense of his grant of water at Santo Cristoforo
- List of towns from Firenzuola to Bologna
- Studies on squaring the circle: lunes and nested circles
- Statics of supports and cords, with a pulley system
- Beam balanced by six counterweights
- Weight, pulleys and proportional motion (1 August 1499)
- The Sun Reflected in the Waves of the Sea
- The Earth as a Star: the Moon, Water and the Sun's Image
- Experience, Mistress of Masters: Proem and Fable of the Owl
- Quadrature of the Circle: Lunes, Squares and Diameters
- Prefaces on experience, the muscles, and the eye
- Memoranda list and studies of rays entering the eye
- How the eye judges size; the moon's diameter and lustre
- Note in another hand, dated Florence, 17 April 1503
- Letter to his family, July 1507, among lune quadratures
- Gesture in Painting, a Pellet Crossbow and Mechanisms
- Near-blank verso showing the recto through the sheet
- Forces in a cord wound on a rod, and pulley blocks
- Balance of Two Poles; Weights, Cords and Cord-Strength
- Machine studies with painting notes and a proud aside
- Squaring the Lunes; Flame, Air, and a Note on the Medici
- Draft Letter to the Vicar on Judicial Cases
- Lunes and biangles: quadrature figures, with a French address
- Quadrature of lunes: circles, squares, and hexagons
- Complaints against the German mirror-makers at the Belvedere
- Angle of incidence in a concave mirror and compass constructions
- Shadow of a sphere under star-shaped light, with quadrature figures
- Beams, pulleys and gear-trains: force, arm and velocity
- Faint verso with a name inscription and a figure marked h
- Compass rosettes and lunes, with a record of the king's salary
- Quadrature of lunes, cylinder geometry and a bitter letter to a brother
- Leonardo's List of Books in His Library
- The Soaring Bird: Wind, Wings and the Steering Tail
- Reclining nude and faint marginal notes
- A bird's gliding descent without wind or wing-beat
- Memoranda for Milan, with geometric figures after Apollonius
- Mechanics of mover, moved body and instrument, with a 1500 dated note
- Geometric Projections with a Memorandum on Florence
- Lunes in quarter-and-eighth proportion, with a letter draft
- What Is Heavy and Light: Gravity, Water and Trapped Air
- Memorandum of errands, purchases and books to procure
- Draft letter of complaint about a German mirror-maker
- Squaring of figures and transformation of quadrilaterals
- Percussion of heavy bodies, a wheel system and aphorisms
- Circles in Quadruple Proportion and 'Shield' Figures
- Four laws of heavy bodies, with a winding-beam query
- Household accounts and money given to Salai
- Solar Rays, Squaring the Circle, and a Letter to a Friend
- Near-Blank Leaf Inscribed 'Antonio - amico'
- Screw press, an auger, and a water-current experiment
- Address to the cathedral deputies: the architect as physician
- The compound shadow, and shadow in painting and sculpture
- Mechanical sketches and a list of light plant materials
- Draft letter to a lord about a troublesome German craftsman
- Household accounts and hidden-cash notes, April 1499
- Note on the pope's chamberlain; geometric solids (780r)
- Letter to Ser Giuliano and notes on pyramid geometry
- Friction, Balance and Centres of Gravity
- Superimposed Surfaces, Tender Jottings and Moral Prose
- Draft letter, Plato's Great Year, and star polygons
- Blank Verso with a Marginal Text Fragment
- Machine to Make Spheres, with an Alloy Recipe
- Setting out a screw thread on a cylinder, with a scent recipe
- Figure Studies and Solids, with a Note on Ratios
- Mechanical wing with horn and quill springs
- Press mechanism and a draft letter on financial want
- Draft letter: the Naviglio water right, a lawsuit, two Madonnas
- Belt-Driven Machine with an Output Calculation and Glue Recipe
- Gear-Train Study with Notarial Jottings
- Note of the Name Giovanni d'Amerigo Benci
- Draft letter on the bronze doors of Piacenza Cathedral
- Inventory of drawings, with machine sketches and grotesque heads
- Wheels, axles and levers for hauling a cart
- Diving Apparatus and a Scheme for Sinking Enemy Ships
- Draft petition on unpaid service; a weight in air and in water
- Canal and river survey of the Romorantin country
- Rules for an experiment on a falling weight striking a ball
- Masonry studies with a note on stoves
- Letter: a crystal shipment and a family inheritance
- Draft safe-conduct for marble from Candoglia
- The coloured circles around the moon, and a note on an Archimedes manuscript
- Gears and worm-screws, with beans painted at their sprouting
- Workshop mills and a grinding machine with part dimensions
- Draft letters on the water grant and Salaì's errand
- Geometry of triangles and circles, with balance notes
- Sheet of mechanical devices with Leonardo's signature
- Sheet of faint mechanical and architectural sketches
- Mechanisms, with notes to weigh a wheel's force and water
- Gear-wheels, a five-thread shaft, and a note on the master of Ancona
- Spring device and wheeled mechanisms, with sums and a memory
- Self-tipping excavator cart, with a draft letter
- Faint mechanical studies on blue paper
- Military and mechanical studies with a psalm verse
- Heat and steam devices with a rotating machine
- Blank final leaf (verso), bearing no writing or drawing
Codex Arundel31 pages
- Balance-arm weights, and the opening of a new collection
- Mirrors and the simulacrum, with a note on Roger Bacon
- Surfaces of solids and the squaring of the lune
- Pulleys and toothed wheels raising weights (f. 79v)
- A balance with two pivots, and studies of weights
- On 'nothing', the arithmetical zero, and Vespucci's geometry book
- Bird flight balanced among the winds; machine-part sketches
- How a moving body loses its power; Salai's account of 1504
- Nature, the flood-borne shells, and the great cavern
- Light through a window, the eye's inner sense, and hair recipes
- The qualities and motions of the four elements
- Blank recto of folio 193
- Reflection at the surface of water and concave mirrors
- Memorandum of names, errands and objects
- Blank verso of folio 210 with show-through of the recto notes
- Household accounts with Salaì and Vante, and the physics of impact
- River floods, waves, and a 1502 note of few soldi
- August 1504 accounts and the movement of stones in rivers
- Pile-driving forces and the death of ser Piero da Vinci
- Begun in Florence, 1508: preface and weights on the balance
- Casting Notes: Iron Core, Firing Holes, and a Jack
- Reflection in curved mirrors; a note on Roger Bacon in print
- Surfaces of sphere and cylinder, and the quadrature of lunes
- Projectile motion, a jibe at doctors, and Salai's expenses
- The Eye, Light Through a Window, and Recipes for the Hair
- Earth beneath water, rebound at equal angles, and the four elements
- Reflection in water and air; concave mirrors
- Loan records of 1503 and notes on impact
- Weight, water and air in motion; a name jotted
- Household accounts, 1504, and stones moved by river currents
- Pile-driving mechanics; the death of Ser Piero da Vinci, 1504
Codex Forster I3 pages
Codex Forster II15 pages
- Folio 2r: Rectangles in a Semicircle; Note on Capacity
- Memorandum of faces to draw; a column of figures
- The penetrating power of the bombard
- Geometry, a Prophecy 'Of Kid-Goats', and Stray Notes
- Red-Chalk Sketches, Figures, and a Name
- Halved parallelepiped and cube, with a note on a bedstead
- Arithmetic proportions, and a note to send for wheat
- Water Jet from a Double Pipe
- Weight of a man on a ladder, and his centre of gravity
- Profile Head, Names, and a Prophecy of the Goats
- On Motion: the Bombard that Casts its Ball Farthest
- On Motion: a Crossbow Casting Weights of Differing Thickness
- Near-blank leaf with a small red-chalk mark (fol. 60r)
- A herb sauce recipe and a note on cloths lost by Salai
- Casting recipe and the burial expenses of Caterina
Codex Forster III20 pages
- Front cover and spine of the parchment binding
- Faint studies of a suspended rod and a device
- Memorandum on Cristofano da Castiglione
- Memorandum: Stefano Caponi has Euclid's 'De ponderibus'
- Heavy parts long to return upward; three cited authors
- Oil recipe and an aphorism on liberty and love
- Blank leaf (folio 19 recto)
- A weight upon a support, with a prayer to the Lord
- Column profile with notes on marcasite and a herbal
- Near-blank leaf with a later inscription
- Blank leaf with faint offset of writing
- Terms for the use of the instrument
- Draft Address to Ludovico, Duke of Bari
- A square and a cube, with a note on showing a model
- Recipe: a caustic paste to dissolve hair and nails
- Force, weight, time and motion in tackle blocks
- Notes on Horses, with a Fluted Bowl Sketch
- Household Names and Workshop Memoranda, 1493
- Near-Blank Leaf with a Single Mirror-Script Line
- Back cover of the notebook's limp vellum binding
Codex Madrid I7 pages
- Eccentric cam-wheel and the flaws of machine motion
- A train of nine wedges and the halving of impact force
- How the Thickness of a Cord Shares a Suspended Weight
- Weight, rope and roller: why unequal diameters foil the motion
- Weight, blow and the multiplying wheel
- No machine multiplies power: agent and patient weights
- Center of gravity and the bending of loaded supports
Codex Madrid II11 pages
- Arno survey, walling costs, and the note of 6 June 1505
- List of books left locked in the chest
- Inventory of garments in the chest at the monastery
- Darkness, Shadow, and the Senses of the Cat
- A windmill built entirely of cloth, with its costing
- Spoked wheel, building sketch and a letter fragment
- Squaring the Circle: the Science of Equalization
- Squaring Lunes and Dividing Circular Portions into Sevenths
- On Painting: Green Shadows at Sunset, Piombino 1504
- Casting the Sforza horse and recipes for casting medals
- Armature for Casting the Bronze Horse
Codex Urbinas (Treatise on Painting)3 pages
Codex on the Flight of Birds3 pages
Paris Manuscript B1 pages
Paris Manuscript C2 pages
Paris Manuscript E5 pages
Paris Manuscript F3 pages
Paris Manuscript G3 pages
Paris Manuscript H8 pages
- Bridge in section, elevation and plan; household accounts
- Household Accounts of 29 January 1494
- Fall of the Martigiana canal and a river-bed depth note
- The stepped cascade of the Sforzesca
- Water seeking its centre; weak and vigorous waterfalls
- Centre of Weight; Note on Giulio and the Study Lock
- Account of Work by Giulio and Maestro Tommaso, 1493
- Passive 'amare' endings, closing with two moral maxims
Paris Manuscript I9 pages
- Heating the duchess's bath water, and a seated man
- Section of a watercourse; a note of a weaver
- Opening leaf of Notebook I2 with faded inscriptions
- Latin word-list with Italian meanings (fol. 52r)
- Latin word-list with a dated memorandum (fol. 53v)
- Vortices in a turning current, with clamped and joined rods
- Water in Waves: Rising, Falling, and Slowing
- Curved Motion's Release Point; Dart-Throwing with a Rod
- Where Powder Bursts a Bombard; a Note at Table
Paris Manuscript K6 pages
Paris Manuscript L10 pages
- Memoranda: things to buy, books to fetch, errands, and a debt
- Two kneeling youths; a note on books and whitening a horse
- Waves on a sloping shore; plan and a Piombino note
- Ropes on pulleys, a labelled casing, and rectangular figures
- River meanders, a pulley, and a crenellated building
- Mechanical device seen at the Cesena fair, and a site plan
- Grapes brought to Cesena; a Populonia map-sketch
- Prophecy of the Treasure-Bearing Mules; a Note on Wages
- Account for Salai's cloak, 4 April 1497
- Memoranda: the Archimedes of Padua, an itinerary, and sums