Description: A cone-shaped flower seen from the front with a curving stem and two tapered leaves, one on each side.

Also known as: tulip; jonquil.

Description of difference: The flower in Group B has longer, narrower leaves than in Groups A, C, D, and E. The leaves curve down and away from the base of the flower. The stem has two bends, similar to that in Groups A, D, and E. Flowers in Groups A, B, and E are centered on a chain line.

Briquet Comparison: B 6661, B 6664.^[1]

Found in folios: Leicester Sheet 6.

Potential Twins: Flower – Group A (Leicester Sheet 7 and Sheet 8)

[1] Because similarities to Briquet’s watermarks continue to be included in the literature, they have been cited here. Briquet comparisons were extracted from Carlo Pedretti and Carlo Vecce in “Apparati IV, V, Filigrane,” Il Codice Arundel 263 nella British Library: edizione in facsimile nel riordinamento cronologico dei suoi fascicoli (Florence: Giunti, 1998), 58-61; Carlo Pedretti, The Codex Hammer of Leonardo da Vinci, translated into English and annotated by Carlo Pedretti (Florence: Giunti Barbèra, 1987); Carmen C. Bambach in Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered, 4 vols. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019); and Juliana Barone, ed., Leonardo da Vinci: A Mind in Motion, exh. cat. (London: The British Library, 2019).