Papers

The collection contains an essay (probably never published) written on 5 October 1989 by Dr. Edward C. Moore, retired Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs for the University of Alabama System, titled "The Madrid Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci". The article explains what Moore, as Dean of the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts, had witnessed and experienced when a colleague found two of the "lost notebooks" of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Spanish National Library. Moore describes the sequence of events and laborious negotiations for publication rights, as well as the cut-throat world of academic publishing.

The collection also contains the issue of LIFE magazine, 3 March 1967, that features the discovery, which cites Dr. Moore's colleague as the discoverer rather than the editor of the published set. There is also an ad for the published work.