Cardinal’s Hat – Group B
Description: A wide-brimmed hat seen from the front, with two strings that are tied below and then separate, terminating in round (tassel) balls.
Description of difference: Hats in Group B have four horizontal lines in the hat itself, and level tassel balls.
Briquet Comparisons: B 3391, B 3367.[1]
Found in folios: Leicester Sheet 14, Leicester Sheet 15, Leicester Sheet 17, and Leicester Sheet 18.
Potential Twins: Cardinal’s Hat – Group A (Leicester Sheet 9, Sheet 10, Sheet 11, Sheet 12, Sheet 13, and Sheet 16)
[1] Because similarities to Briquet’s watermarks continue to be included in the literature, they have been cited here. Briquet comparisons were extracted from Carlo Pedretti and Carlo Vecce in “Apparati IV, V, Filigrane,” Il Codice Arundel 263 nella British Library: edizione in facsimile nel riordinamento cronologico dei suoi fascicoli (Florence: Giunti, 1998), 58-61; Carlo Pedretti, The Codex Hammer of Leonardo da Vinci, translated into English and annotated by Carlo Pedretti (Florence: Giunti Barbèra, 1987); Carmen C. Bambach in Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered, 4 vols. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019); and Juliana Barone, ed., Leonardo da Vinci: A Mind in Motion, exh. cat. (London: The British Library, 2019).
Leicester Sheet 14
Available images (below):
– De-noised image of watermark in Leicester Sheet 14
– Overlay animation of Leicester Sheet 14 and Leicester Sheet 15 (Group B moldmates)
– Overlay animation of Leicester Sheet 14 and Leicester Sheet 9 (Group A and Group B)
– Overlay animation of Leicester Sheet 14 and Arundel ff. 1-14 (Group B and Group C)
– Overlay animation of Leicester Sheet 14 and Arundel ff. 5-10 (Group B and Group D)
– Overlay animation of Leicester Sheet 14 and Arundel f. 152 (Group B and Group E)
Leicester Sheet 15
Available images (below):
– De-noised image of watermark in Leicester Sheet 15
Leicester Sheet 17
Available images (below):
– De-noised image of watermark in Leicester Sheet 17
Leicester Sheet 18
Available images (below):
– De-noised image of watermark in Leicester Sheet 18