1375.

Begun at Milan on the l2th of September 1508.

[Footnote:  No. 1528 and No. 1529 belong to the same year.  The text Vol.  I, No. 4 belongs to the following year 1509 (1508 old style); so also does No. 1009.—­ Nos. 1022, 1057 and 1464 belong to 1511.]

1376.

On the 9th of January 1513.

[Footnote:  No. 1465 belongs to the same year.  No. 1065 has the next date 1514.]

1377.

The Magnifico Giuliano de’ Medici left Rome on the 9th of January 1515, just at daybreak, to take a wife in Savoy; and on the same day fell the death of the king of France.

[Footnote:  Giuliano de Medici, brother to Pope Leo X.; see note to Nos. 1351-1353.  In February, 1515, he was married to Filiberta, daughter of Filippo, Duke of Savoy, and aunt to Francis I, Louis XII’s successor on the throne of France.  Louis XII died on Jan. 1st, and not on Jan. 9th as is here stated.—­ This addition is written in paler ink and evidently at a later date.]

1378.

On the 24th of June, St John’s day, 1518 at Amboise, in the palace of...

[Footnote:  Castello del clli.  The meaning of this word is obscure; it is perhaps not written at full length.]

XXII.

Miscellaneous Notes.

The incidental memoranda scattered here and there throughout the MSS. can have been for the most part intelligible to the writer only; in many cases their meaning and connection are all the more obscure because we are in ignorance about the persons with whom Leonardo used to converse nor can we say what part he may have played in the various events of his time.  Vasari and other early biographers give us a very superficial and far from accurate picture of Leonardo’s private life.  Though his own memoranda, referring for the most part to incidents of no permanent interest, do not go far towards supplying this deficiency, they are nevertheless of some importance and interest as helping us to solve the numerous mysteries in which the history of Leonardo’s long life remains involved.  We may at any rate assume, from Leonardo’s having committed to paper notes on more or less trivial matters on his pupils, on his house-keeping, on various known and unknown personages, and a hundred other trifies—­that at the time they must have been in some way important to him.

I have endeavoured to make these ‘Miscellaneous Notes’ as complete as possible, for in many cases an incidental memorandum will help to explain the meaning of some other note of a similar kind.  The first portion of these notes (Nos. l379—­l457), as well as those referring to his pupils and to other artists and artificers who lived in his house (1458—­1468,) are arranged in chronological order.  A considerable proportion of these notes belong to the period between 1490 and 1500, when Leonardo was living at Milan under the patronage of Lodovico il Moro, a time concerning