MS Laur. 1299, Datable to the 17th century
Milanese Provenance documented by watermark
BA: B 271 CE: Cortona F1: Ricc. 1185 F2: Ricc. 2136 F3: Ricc. 2191 F4: F5: Ricc. 2276 F6: Ricc. 3208 FA: Academy FL2: 457 Acq. doni FM1: Susini FM2: Gaddi FM3: Jesuit FN1: II. III. 278 FN2: Badia FN3: Vallombrosa FP1: Pal. 783 FP2: Pal. 962 FP3: Pal. 1148 G1: Ganay 1 L1: Belt 35 L2: Belt 36 M1: Pinelli M2: H 227 M3: H 228 ME: App. 803 MSA: MV1: ERV C. III 43 MV2: E II, 6 N1: P1: 967 R1: Corsini 402 RC1: 968 RC2: 5018 S1: Hermitage VB: Barb. Lat. 4304 VM1: 5135 VM2: 5372 VO1: Ott. 2978 VO2: Ott. 2984 VU: Urb. Lat. 1270 ITAL1651 FREN1651 ENGL1721 ITAL1817
This seventeenth-century Milanese manuscript is a partial copy of the manuscript M1 owned by Vincenzo Pinelli (1535-1601), which is one of the earliest copies of Leonardo's Treatise on Painting.
FL1 was made in Milan in the 17th century, a fact documented by its watermark (Barone 2011). The textual and visual comparison demonstrates that its source was M1, one of the earliest copies of Leonardo's Treatise on Painting, which was available in Milan since the late 16th century (compare in particular T1054, I423, I432, I451). It is possible that this manuscript, or a copy derived from it, was made available to Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-1657) around 1640 (Barone 2011).
The early history of FL1 is unknown. Giuseppe Carlo Aurelio de' Bossi (1758-1833) acquired it at some point. In 1837 Lord Ashburnham bought it and in 1884 it entered the Biblioteca Mediceo Laurenziana together with other manuscripts from Lord Ashburnham's library.
[II] + fols. 1-87v + [88] + [II] , 29.8 x 22.5 cm , in folio
Milanese watermark with a five-petalled flower and a hand with five outstretched fingers similar to watermark in M2 and VM1
Lord Ashburnham (Cochran Catalogue 1837, p.195); Steinitz, Treatise on Painting, 1958, p. 54 (B, 9); Richter, The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci, 1939, vol. 1, p. 9 note; Barone, "Cassiano dal Pozzo's manuscript copy of the Trattato: new evidence of editorial procedures and responses to Leonardo in the seventeenth century" Raccolta Vinciana, 35 (2012), p. 238.