679

Arrangement of a picture.

John the Baptist Saint Augustin Saint Peter Paul Elisabeth Saint Clara. Bernardino Our Lady Louis Bonaventura Anthony of Padua. Saint Francis. Francis, Anthony, a lily and book; Bernardino with the [monogram of] Jesus, Louis with 3 fleur de lys on his breast and the crown at his feet, Bonaventura with Seraphim, Saint Clara with the tabernacle, Elisabeth with a Queen’s crown.

[Footnote: 679. The text of the first six lines is written within a square space of the same size as the copy here given. The names are written in the margin following the order in which they are here printed. In lines 7—12 the names of those saints are repeated of whom it seemed necessary to point out the emblems.]

Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci
X: Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations.
. . .
On Madonna pictures.
663
Bernardo di Bandino’s Portrait.
664
Notes on the Last Supper.
665,
666,
667,
668
On the battle of Anghiari.
669
Allegorical representations referring to the duke of Milan.
670,
671,
672,
673
Allegorical representations.
674,
675,
676,
677,
678
Arrangement of a picture.
679
List of drawings.
680
Mottoes and Emblems.
681,
682,
683,
684,
685,
686,
687,
688,
689,
690,
691,
692,
693,
694,
695,
696,
697,
698,
699
. . .