Explore the Forster Codices

The Forster Codices are made up of five of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, bound into three volumes. Written in Leonardo’s famous ‘mirror-writing’, the notebooks detail Leonardo's thoughts and designs on the living nature of the world, in human motion and emotion, in the violence of battle and in the elemental force of cosmic powers. Explore the codices below via the page-turner, flip the pages to view the mirror writing the 'right' way round and read historical notes and translations, both in Italian and English.