Description: A pair of scissors pointing downwards, open less than 45 degrees, with two handles of open loops.

Also known as: shears.

Description of difference: Scissors in Group A have blades that are slightly wider at the tip than the joint. The handle loops are thicker near the joint. 

Briquet Comparison: B 3635 (This is an incorrect #; B 3635 is not found in Briquet, vol. 1, plate 6, fig. 22).^[1]

Found in folios: Arundel f. 18, Arundel ff. 79-93, Arundel ff. 81-91, Arundel ff. 83-89, Arundel ff. 147-148, Arundel ff. 271-278, and Arundel ff. 273-276.

Potential Twin: Indeterminate due to random location of moldmates.

[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).