[10] The conclusion of Dello's epitaph, as recorded by Vasari, is H.S.E.S.T.T.L.—i.e., Hic sepultus est, sit tibi terra levis. The bas-relief of Faith in the Bargello is signed O.M.C.L., i.e., Opus Mattæi Civitali Lucensis. There is a manuscript of St. Jerome in the Rylands Library at Manchester in which long texts are quoted by means of the initial letters alone.
[11] MS. Sketch-Book in Bibl. Naz., Florence, lettered "Ghiberti," folio 51a.
[12] Cf. Madame André's prophet and figures on Mandorla door.
[13] On the Brenzoni tomb in the Church of San Fermo: "Quem genuit Russi Florentia Tusca Johañis: istud sculpsit opus ingeniosa manus."
[14] Pliny, xxxiv. 19, 3.
[15] Bargello David.
[16] In 1496. See Gruyer, "Les Illustrations," 1879, p. 206.
[17] C. Müller, "Ancient Art and its Remains," p. 227.
[18] Pliny, xxxvi. 44.
[19] Printed in Richter's "Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci," vol. i.