682

Mottoes and Emblems.

Obstacles cannot crush me Every obstacle yields to stern resolve He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

[Footnote: This text is written to elucidate two sketches which were obviously the first sketches for the drawings reproduced on PL LXII, No. 2.]

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

681 * 683

VIII * XI

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,

700,

701,

702

. . .