Report on the lily moldmates found in the Codex Leicester and Royal Collection Trust drawings by Margaret Holben Ellis

Description: The heraldic symbol of a lily, symmetrical with three petals, two curved on either side, and one extending straight up in the middle.

Description of difference: The lilies in Group A have curved petals on either side that do not touch the base, as well as a center petal that ends in a point extending upward.

Also known as: Fleur de lis; fleur de lys.

Briquet Comparisons: B 6794, B 6870.^[1]

Found in folios: Leicester Sheet 5; RCIN 919099.

Potential Twins: N/A

[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).