LEONARDO DA VINCI

Ideal title to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death in 2019
¦ Winner of the British Book Design and Production Award: Best Exhibition Catalogue
¦ A complete new presentation of Leonardo da Vinci's Manuscript A – the finest anatomical drawings ever made

Leonardo's campaign of human dissection during the winter of 1510–11, recorded in the pages of a manuscript now in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, reveal him to be one of the greatest anatomists ever to have lived.
He combined, to a unique degree, manual skill in dissection, analytical skill in understanding the structures he uncovered, and artistic skill in recording his results.

This award-winning book reproduces the entire manuscript, and for the first time, translates all of Leonardo's distinctive miror-writing notes ‘on the page', so that the unfolding of his thoughts may be readily followed by both the general and specialist reader.

Martin Clayton is Head of Prints and Drawings, Royal Collection Trust.

Ron Philo is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Centre at San Antonio.