Overview
- Leonardotheka 2.0 went live Monday, combining Milan’s 1,119-sheet Codex Atlanticus with roughly 550 Windsor sheets to create the largest single online resource for Leonardo’s notebooks.
- The site publishes 50 confirmed page-level reconstructions that return Windsor-held fragments to Codex Atlanticus pages by matching paper size, preparation, inks and watermarks.
- One high-profile reunion joins Codex Atlanticus folio 399r with Royal Collection folio RCIN 912345r, reuniting a horse drawing with notes on Pavia’s Regisole equestrian monument.
- Museo Galileo in Florence oversaw the decade-long project in partnership with the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, the Royal Collection Trust and the Biblioteca Leonardiana, with half the funding from Italian ministries and the rest from Museo Galileo.
- Beyond public access, the platform adds filters for content and technique, archival metadata and searchable material evidence, which project leaders say will speed new interdisciplinary research and offer a model for non-commercial digital stewardship.