1392.

Messer Gian Domenico Mezzabarba and Messer Giovanni Franceso
Mezzabarba.  By the side of Messer Piero d’Anghiera.

1393.

Conte Francesco Torello.

1394.

Giuliano Trombetta,—­Antonio di Ferrara, —­Oil of .... [Footnote: 
Near this text is the sketch of a head drawn in red chalk.]

1395.

Paul was snatched up to heaven. [Footnote:  See the facsimile of this note on Pl.  XXIII No. 2.]

1396.

Giuliano da Maria, physician, has a steward without hands.

1397.

Have some ears of corn of large size sent from Florence.

1398.

See the bedstead at Santa Maria.  Secret.

1399.

Arrigo is to have 11 gold Ducats.  Arrigo is to have 4 gold ducats in the middle of August.

1400.

Give your master the instance of a captain who does not himself win the victory, but the soldiers do by his counsels; and so he still deserves the reward.

1401.

Messer Pier Antonio.

1402.

Oil,—­yellow,—­Ambrosio,—­the mouth, —­the farmhouse.

1403.

My dear Alessandro from Parma, by the hand of ...

1404.

Giovannina, has a fantastic face,—­is at Santa Caterina, at the
Hospital. [Footnote:  Compare the text on the same page:  No. 667.]

1405.

24 tavole make 1 perch. 4 trabochi make 1 tavola. 4 braccia and a half make a trabocco.  A perch contains 1936 square braccia, or 1944.

1406.

The road of Messer Mariolo is 13 1/4 braccia wide; the House of
Evangelista is 75.

It enters 7 1/2 braccia in the house of Mariolo. [Footnote:  On this page and that which faces it, MS.I2 7la, are two diagrams with numerous reference numbers, evidently relating to the measurements of a street.]

1407.

I ask at what part of its curved motion the moving cause will leave the thing moved and moveable.

Speak to Pietro Monti of these methods of throwing spears.

1408.

Antonio de’ Risi is at the council of Justice.

1409.

Paolo said that no machine that moves another .... [Footnote:  The passage, of which the beginning is here given, deals with questions in mechanics.  The instances in which Leonardo quotes the opinions of his contemporaries on scientific matters are so rare as to be worth noticing.  Compare No. 901. ]

1410.

Caravaggio. [Footnote:  Caravaggio, a village not far from the Adda between Milan and Brescia, where Polidoro and Michelangelo da Caravaggio were born.  This note is given in facsimile on Pl.  XIII, No.  I (above, to the left).  On Pl.  XIII, No. 2 above to the right we read cerovazo.]

1411.

Pulleys,—­nails,—­rope,—­mercury,—­cloth, Monday.

1412.

MEMORANDUM.

Maghino, Speculus of Master Giovanni the Frenchman; Galenus on utility.