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And Leonardo was going obviously off to ask Jean de Paris how to do things on vellum not orthodox manuscript, how to use dry colours which are pastels.

So that memorandum which had always seemed a bit random suddenly fell into place.

And a piece of evidence which had been lurking there rather unscrutinised which we didn't really need to think about Leonardo and vellum.

The other aspect is you think well why would he do it on vellum?

And in that case you begin to think about the function of it.

His faults of princess's as I'm calling them, the inner circle of aristocratic ladies in the Duke's court.

They're not technically princess's but they are in a vernacular sense.

They received at key events in their life particularly marriage, presentation volumes of poems.

Beautifully written in vellum.

Some of the poems survived, some of the volumes survive.

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