C.A. = Codex Atlanticus (we follow the folio numbers and letters of Il Codice Atlantico della Biblioteca Ambrosiana di Milano, transcribed by Augusto Marinoni, preface by Carlo Pedretti. 24 vols. Florence: Giunti, 1973â1980).
R. 1 = Richter, passage number 1.
LdP, n. 1 = numeration of passages of the Codex Urbinas 1270 (Libro di pittura) established by Pedretti and Vecce.
Codex Arundel = Il Codice Arundel 263 nella British Library: Edizione in facsimile nel riordinamento cronologico dei suoi fascicoli, edited by Carlo Pedretti and transcribed and annotated by Carlo Vecce. 2 vols. Florence: Giunti, 1998.
Codex on the Flight of Birds = Il codice sul volo degli uccelli nella Biblioteca reale di Torino, transcribed and annotated by Augusto Marinoni. Florence: Giunti, 1976.
Codex Leicester = Codex Leicester, edited and translated by Martin Kemp and Domenico Laurenza. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
Codex Trivulziano = Il Codice di Leonardo da Vinci nella Biblioteca Trivulziano di Milano, edited and transcribed by Anna Maria Brizio. Florence: Giunti, 1980.
Madrid Codex I and ii = The Madrid Codices, translated by Ladislao Reti. 5 vols. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974.
Further information on these and other editions of Leonardoâs autograph manuscripts is available at Claire Farago and Matthew Landrus, âLeonardo da Vinci,â Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation, edited by Margaret King. New York: Oxford University Press, online publication. Mario Valentino Guffanti has developed an image database for the Treatise on Painting available at: https://raccoltavinciana.milanocastello.it/en/content/online-archives.
Trattato della pittura di Lionardo da Vinci, novamente dato in luce, con la vita dellâistesso autoreâ¦. Edited by R. Trichet du Fresne. Paris: Jacques Langlois, 1651.
R. Fréart, Sieur de Chambray, trans. and ed. Traitté de la peinture de Leonard de Vinci donné au public et traduit dâitalien en françois par R.F.S.D.C. Paris: Jacques Langlois, 1651.
Bambach, Unâeredità difficile
Bambach, Carmen C. Unâeredità difficile: i disegni ed i manoscritti di Leonardo tra mito e documento. Lettura Vinciana 47, Vinci, Biblioteca Leonardiana. Florence: Giunti, 2009.
Bambach, Master Draftsman
Bambach, Carmen C. Leonardo da Vinci: Master Draftsman. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003. Exhibition catalog.
Barone, âCassianoâ
Barone, Juliana. âCassiano dal Pozzoâs Manuscript Copy of the Trattato: New Evidence of Editorial Procedures and Responses to Leonardo in the Seventeenth Century.â Raccolta Vinciana 34 (2011): 223â286.
Farago, Paragone
Farago, Claire. Leonardo da Vinciâs âParagoneâ: A Critical Interpretation with a New Edition of the Text in the Codex Urbinas. Leiden-Cologne: E. J. Brill, 1992.
Farago, Re-Reading Leonardo
Re-Reading Leonardo: The Treatise on Painting across Europe 1550 to 1900. Edited by Claire Farago. Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2009.
F/B (Friedländer and Blunt)
Friedländer, Walter, and Anthony Blunt. The Drawings of Nicolas Poussin: Catalogue Raisonné. London: Warburg Institute, 1963. For additional brevity, this edition of Poussinâs drawings is cited in the Readerâs Notes as F/B; the later catalogue raisonné, cited as R/P, is that of Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat.
Keele and Pedretti, Anatomical Studies
Keele, Kenneth, and Carlo Pedretti, eds. Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomical Studies in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen. 3 vols. London: Johnson Reprint, 1979.
Kemp and Barone, âWhat Mightâ¦â
Kemp, Martin, and Juliana Barone. âWhat Might Leonardoâs Own Trattato Have Looked Like? And What Did It Actually Look Like up to the Time of the Editio Princeps?â In Re-Reading Leonardo, 39â60.
Pedretti, Commentary
Pedretti, Carlo, ed. The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci Compiled and Edited from the Original Manuscripts by Jean Paul Richter, Commentary. 2 vols. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.
Pedretti, Libro A
Pedretti, Carlo. Leonardo da Vinci on Painting: A Lost Book (Libro A). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964.
Pedretti and Vecce
Leonardo da Vinci: Libro di pittura. Edited by Carlo Pedretti, transcribed by Carlo Vecce. 2 vols. Florence: Giunti, 1995.
Quaglino, Glossario
Quaglino, Margherita. Glossario Leonardiano: Nomenclature dellâottica e della prospettiva nei codici di Francia. Foreword by Giovanna Frosini. Biblioteca Leonardiana studi e documenti. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2013.
Richter, Literary Works
Richter, Jean Paul, ed. The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci. 2 vols. 3rd ed. London: Phaidon, 1970.
R/P (Rosenberg and Prat)
Rosenberg, Pierre, and Louis-Antoine Prat. Nicolas Poussin 1594â1665: Catalogue raisonné des dessins. 2 vols. Milan: Leonardo Editore, 1994. For additional brevity, this edition of Poussinâs drawings is cited in the Readerâs Notes as R/P; the earlier catalogue raisonné, cited as F/B, is that of Walter Friedländer and Anthony Blunt.
Sconza, Trattato/Traitté
Sconza, Anna. Trattato della pittura/Traitté de la peinture (1651). Foreword by Pierre Rosenberg, Preface by Carlo Vecce. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2012.
Sparti, âCassianoâ
Sparti, Donatella. âCassiano dal Pozzo, Poussin, and the Making and Publication of Leonardoâs Trattato.â Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 66 (2003): 143â188.
Steinitz, Treatise on Painting
Steinitz, Kate Trauman. Leonardo da Vinciâs Trattato della pittura: Treatise on Painting. A Bibliography of the Printed Editions 1651â1956. Preface by Elmer Belt. Library Research Monographs 5. Munksgaard-Copenhagen: The University Library, 1958.
Syson with Keith, Leonardo at Milan
Syson, Luke, with Larry Keith et al. Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan. London: National Gallery Company, 2011. Exhibition catalog.
Vasari, Vite
Giorgio Vasari, Le Vite deâ più eccelenti pittori, scultori ed architettori. Edited by Paola Barocchi and R. Bettarini, 5 vols. (Florence: Sansoni, 1966â1987).