Leonardo da Vinci’s Europe
For those navigators interested in Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches of maps showing the European continent (or parts of it) we give the following overview. You do find such sketches at the following locations within the whole of the extant manuscripts (for the Codex Atlanticus we give the new and also the old numbering):
(Picture: maps.com)
Codex Atlanticus 200v [ex 73v-b]
Codex Atlanticus 227v [ex 84v-a]
Codex Atlanticus 832r [ex 305r-b]
Codex Atlanticus 901 [ex 328v-b]
Codex Atlanticus 1006v [ex 361v-b]
Codex Atlanticus 1106r [ex 397r-b]
Manuscript A 57r
Manuscript I 47r
You may browse the manuscripts here: http://www.leonardodigitale.com
And here the folio with a famous sketch of upper Mesopotamia (picture: PeopleOfAr) and the cardinal direction of »Oriente« inscribed into a bend of river Tigris (left part of the folio, upper right):
Codex Atlanticus 393v [ex 145v-a; v-b] |
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