1364.

[When I did well, as a boy you used to put me in prison.  Now if I do it being grown up, you will do worse to me.]

1365.

Tell me if anything was ever done.

1366.

Tell me if ever I did a thing which me ....

1367.

Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.

[Footnote:  This note seems to be a quotation.]

1368.

Maestro Leonardo of Florence.

[Footnote:  So Leonardo writes his name on a sheet with sundry short notes, evidently to try a pen.  Compare the signature with those in Nos. 1341, 1348 and 1374 (see also No. 1346, l. 33).  The form “Lionardo” does not occur in the autographs.  The Portrait of the Master in the Royal Library at Turin, which is reproduced—­slightly diminished—­on Pl.  I, has in the original two lines of writing underneath; one in red chalk of two or three words is partly effaced:  lionardo it... lm (or lai?); the second written in pencil is as follows:  fatto da lui stesso assai vecchio.  In both of these the writing is very like the Master’s, but is certainly only an imitation.]

Notes bearing Dates (1369—­1378).

1369.

The day of Santa Maria della Neve [of the Snows] August the 2nd 1473. [Footnote:  W. An.  I. 1368. 1369.  This date is on a drawing of a rocky landscape.  See Chronique des Arts 1881 no. 23:  Leonard de Vinci a-t-il ete au Righi le 5 aout 1473? letter by H. de Geymuller.  The next following date in the MSS. is 1478 (see No. 663).

1370.

On the 2nd of April 1489, book entitled ‘Of the human figure’. [Footnote:  While the letters in the MS. notes of 1473 and 1478 are very ornate, this note and the texts on anatomy on the same sheet (for instance No. 805) are in the same simple hand as we see on Pl.  CXVI and CXIX.  No 1370 is the only dated note of the years between 1480 and 1489, and the characters are in all essential points identical with those that we see in the latest manuscripts written in France (compare the facsimiles on Pl.  CXV and p. 254), so that it is hardly possible to determine exactly the date of a manuscript from the style of the handwriting, if it does not betray the peculiarities of style as displayed in the few notes dated previous to l480.—­Compare the facsimile of the manuscripts 1479 on Pl.LXII, No. 2; No. 664, note, Vol.  I p. 346.  This shows already a marked simplicity as compared with the calligraphy of I478.

The text No. 720 belongs to the year 1490; No. 1510 to the year 1492; No. 1459, No. 1384 and No. 1460 to the year 1493; No. 1463, No. 1517, No. 1024, 1025 and 1461 to the year 1494; Nos. 1523 and 1524 to the year 1497.

1371.

On the 1st of August 1499, I wrote here of motion and of weight.