Drawing in crayon and chalk of the Last Supper, after Leonardo da Vinci. Italy, ca. 1562. Paper. Belonged to the von Feder Collection (stamp: "v. Feder" and note "Nov. 04-la").
Francesco Melzi (1493-1570), 2 pen drawings. paper. 1.] Two grotesques, man with pointed chin and old woman, in profile facing each other. 2.] Two grotesques, old woman and smiling old man, in profile facing each other. Attributed by Carlo Pedretti to Francesco Melzi, a pupil of Leonardo da Vinci, they are copies of Leonardo sketches, some of which are in the collections of the duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Formerly attributed to Leonardo himself. From a set of twelve drawings of similar size in the collection of the earls of Pembroke at Wilton House, one of which is now at the Detroit Institute of Art (Gift of Edward Fowles). Given to the Elmer Belt Library by Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fowls in honor of Dr. Franklin D. Murphy in 1968.
Decoration:Major initials in alternating red and blue with pen infilling and flourishing. Large initials alternating in red and blue and pen-flourished, occasionally with faces (ff. 114v, 124, 125v). Mid-sized initials in black on green, occasionally with pen faces colored tan (ff. 119r-v, 124v, 125, unnumbered fragment verso). An erroneous large red initial A[lorificamus] on f. 187 has a discreet contemporary mauve G with harping inserted beside it.
