767

Decorations for feasts.

The cylinder of a body columnar in shape and its two opposite ends are two circles enclosed between parallel lines, and through the centre of the cylinder is a straight line, ending at the centre of these circles, and called by the ancients the axis.

[Footnote: Leonardo wrote these lines on the margin of a page of the Trattato di Francesco di Giorgio, where there are several drawings of columns, as well as a head drawn in profile inside an outline sketch of a capital.]

Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci
XII: Architectural Designs.
. . .
747,
748,
749,
750,
751,
752,
753,
754,
755,
756,
757,
758,
759
On the proportions of a court yard.
760
On the dispositions of a stable.
761
Decorations for feasts.
762,
763,
764,
765,
766,
767,
768,
769