List of Works By Leonardo Da Vinci - Manuscripts

Manuscripts

Image Title Dates Pages Notes Location
Codex Atlanticus 1478–1519 1,119 12 volumes, collated by the sculptor Pompeo Leoni. Milan, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
Codex Windsor 1478–1518 153 Windsor, Royal Collection
Codex Arundel 1480–1518 283 London, British Library
Codex Trivulzianus c. 1487–90 55 (originally 62) Milan, Biblioteca Trivulziana, Castello Sforzesco
Codex Forster 1487–1505 354 Five pocket notebooks bound into three volumes, here listed in chronological order.
  • I.2 (Milan, c. 1487–90): Discusses hydraulic engineering, the moving and raising of water and perpetual motion.
  • III (Milan, c. 1490–3: Notes on geometry, weights and hydraulics interspersed with sketches of horses’ legs, what might be designs for ball costumes and a description of the anatomy of the human head.
  • II.1 (Milan, c. 1495): Notes on the theory of proportions and other miscellaneous material.
  • II.2 (Milan, 1495–7): Notes on the theory of weights, traction, stresses and balances.
  • I.1 (Florence, 1505): Notes on the measurement of solid bodies and on topology.
 London, Victoria and Albert Museum

  • Paris Manuscript B Folio 80r. A flying machine.

 Paris Manuscripts 1488–1505 more than 2500

12 volumes labeled from "A" to "M", here listed in chronological order.

  • B (1488–90; 84 folios): Notebook including designs for flying machines (including the “helicopter”), a submarine, centrally-planned churches and war machines.
  • C (1490−1; 28 folios. One section missing.) Treatise on light and shade; also discusses flow of water and percussion.
  • A (c. 1492): Fragment of a larger MS which included the Codex Ashburnham II. Subjects covered include painting, perspective, water and mechanics.
  • H (1493–4; 142 folios): Three pocket notebooks bound together. Discusses Euclidean geometry and the design of drawing materials.
  • M (late 1490s–1500; 48 folios): A pocket notebook on geometry, ballistics and botany.
  • L (1497–1502; 94 folios): A notebook on military enginnering, used by Leonardo when he was in the employ of Cesare Borgia.
  • K (1503–8; 128 folios): Three pocket notebooks, mainly on geometry.
  • I (1497–1505; 139 folios): Two pocket notebooks with notes on geometry, architecture, Latin, perspective and proportions for painters.
  • D (1508–9; 10 folios with 20 drawings): Discusses theories of vision.
  • F (1508–13; 96 folios): Discusses water, optics, geology and astronomy.
  • E (1513–4; originally 96 folios): Discusses weights and the effects of gravity, an invention for draining the Pontine Marshes, geometry, painting and the flight of birds.
  • G (1510–5; 93 folios): Primarily discusses botany.
 Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France
Codex Madrid 1490s–1504 Two volumes, rediscovered in 1966.
  • I (1490s): Mainly concerned with the science of mechanisms.
  • II (1503–4): Miscellaneous drawings, including maps of the Arno relating to the project to divert its course and notes and drawings relating to the casting of the Sforza monument.
 Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España

  • Folio 93v. Designs for a centrally planned church

 Codex Ashburnham c. 1492 Two volumes, taken out of Paris Manuscripts A and B and sold to the Earl of Ashburnham, who returned them to Paris in 1890. Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France
Codex on the Flight of Birds c. 1505 18 Turin, Biblioteca Reale
Codex Leicester 1506–1510 72 United States, private collection
Codex Urbinas c. 1530 gathered together by Francesco Melzi after Leonardo's death Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

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