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1500Leonardo da Vinci
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1505Tower of London
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1509Henry VIII's Coronation
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1511Jousting Rules
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1511Catherine of Aragon's pregnancy
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1516Utopia by Thomas More
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1518Songs written by Henry VIII
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1520The Field of Cloth of Gold
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1526First printed Bible in English
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1528Henry VIII's 'Great Matter'
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1534Last letter from Thomas More to Henry VIII
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1539Dissolution of the Monasteries
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1540Henry VIII's Great Bible
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1540Henry VIII's Psalter
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1543Minstrels at a feast
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1543Chopping Wood
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1543Vesalius's anatomy lessons
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1543Copernicus
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1547Edward VI's diary
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1549Henry VIII's assets
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1553Letter from Elizabeth I
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1556Circular zodiac chart
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1558Elizabeth I's Map
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1567The First National Lottery
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1570Elizabeth I in a golden chariot
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1575Handwritten recipe
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1577Elizabethan dress codes
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1582First English Dictionary
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1585Recipe for pancakes
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1587Mary Queen of Scots
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1588Elizabeth's Tilbury speech
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1592Elizabethan thieves
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1592Doctor Faustus by Marlowe
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1595A cure for drunkenness
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Intro
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was one of the greatest thinkers of his age. He was a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer and cartographer. His most famous artworks include the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, but he was also a scientific visionary, fascinated by engineering, by the concept of flight, and by anatomy. This is a page from one of Leonardo’s notebooks, put together from loose papers after his death. The notebook consists of 570 pages of text and drawings, covering a wide range of subjects from geometry, astronomy and flight to hydraulics, painting and literature. The text, in Italian, is in Leonardo’s famous mirror writing, written left-handed and from right to left.
Shelfmark: Arundel MS 263
