The Victoria and Albert Museum was founded in 1852 and is located in the South Kensington area of the British capital. Recently, the museum’s management made a statement that now anyone can get acquainted with the notebooks kept by Leonardo da Vinci. High-quality electronic copies are posted on the official website of the museum. And now everyone who is attracted by the personality of the great master of the Renaissance will be able to look at the pages of rare records.

Leonardo da Vinci went down in history as the author of such paintings as “The Last Supper”, “Savior of the World”, “Mona Lisa”. But he is known not only as a brilliant artist. He had a lot of diverse talents – he was well versed in architecture, wrote music, was engaged in research, and was fond of engineering.

Leonardo da Vinci wrote down his personal notes, sketches, diagrams, and drawings in notebooks. Getting acquainted with these records, you understand how unique a person he was.

All recordings were made using “mirror writing”. Art critics say that you quickly get used to reading from right to left; it only takes a couple of days of training.

There is a version that Leonardo wrote not in a notebook, but on separate sheets of paper. They were stitched and provided with covers much later. Scientists believe that the records were ennobled in the 16th century by the Spanish sculptor Pompeo Leoni, who had the artist’s archive at his disposal.

The Victoria and Albert Museum has announced its intention to digitize other notebooks with notes from the brilliant artist. The work is planned to be completed by 2019, on the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci.