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The collection: The Library possesses the facsimile reproductions of all the original manuscripts and drawings, and all the works dealing with Leonardo da Vinci beginning with the first edition of the Treatise on Painting published in 1651. The Uzielli collection, that represents the library's main asset, consists of about three hundred of the most important publications brought out up until 1910. The other works include unpublished correspondence by Giovan Battista Venturi (1746-1822), a Vincian scholar, more than seven thousand monographs published in numerous languages (the most interesting of which being Chinese, Korean, Hehrew, Japanese, Hindi, Russian, Tamil ... ),thousands of pamphlets and articles, film, posters, maps, photographs, slides, X-rays of paintings and further documentare material.
It also possesses a collection of several tens of thousands of Italian (and some foreign) pres cuttings beginning in 1938.
There is also a small referenee scetion containing works complementare io Vincian studics ami volumes by carlier, contemporary or later authors that relate Io Leonardo's activity.
The collection: The Library possesses the facsimile reproductions of all the original manuscripts and drawings, and all the works dealing with Leonardo da Vinci beginning with the first edition of the Treatise on Painting published in 1651. The Uzielli collection, that represents the library's main asset, consists of about three hundred of the most important publications brought out up until 1910. The other works include unpublished correspondence by Giovan Battista Venturi (1746-1822), a Vincian scholar, more than seven thousand monographs published in numerous languages (the most interesting of which being Chinese, Korean, Hehrew, Japanese, Hindi, Russian, Tamil ... ),thousands of pamphlets and articles, film, posters, maps, photographs, slides, X-rays of paintings and further documentare material.
It also possesses a collection of several tens of thousands of Italian (and some foreign) pres cuttings beginning in 1938.
There is also a small referenee scetion containing works complementare io Vincian studics ami volumes by carlier, contemporary or later authors that relate Io Leonardo's activity.
