Libro di pittura
(Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana)
Ms. Urb. Lat. 1270, datable c. 1540, compiled by Leonardo’s pupil Francesco Melzi
Critical editions and translations
Leonardo da Vinci. Trattato della pittura di Lionardo da Vinci, novamente dato in luce, con la vita dell’istesso autore, edited by Raffaelle Trichet Du Fresne. Paris, 1651 (abridged version).
Léonard de Vinci. Traitté de la peinture de Léonard de Vinci. Donné au public et traduit d’Italien en François par Roland Fréart Sieur de Chambray, translated by Fréart du Chambray. Paris, 1651 (abridged version).
Leonardo da Vinci. Trattato della pittura di Leonardo da Vinci tratto da un Codice della Biblioteca Vaticana, edited by Guglielmo Manzi. Rome, 1817 (complete version).
Re-reading Leonardo: The Treatise on Painting across Europe 1550–1900, ed. by Claire Farago. Farnham, 2009.
Leonardo da Vinci. A Treatise on painting, translated by John Francis Rigaud. London, 1877 (reprint, New York, 2005) (abridged version).
Das Buch von der Malerei, edited by H. Ludwig, Wien, 1882 (complete version).
Leonardo da Vinci. Treatise on painting. Codex Urbinas Latinus 1270, translated by A. Philip McMahon, with an introduction by Ludwig Heydenreich. 2 vols. Princeton/NJ, 1956 (complete version).
Leonardo da Vinci. Libro di pittura, edited by Carlo Pedretti and transcribed by Carlo Vecce. 2 vols. Florence: Giunti, 1995 (complete version).