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The API answers one page at a time. For corpus work you may want the files on disk instead: venivididavinci.com/downloads offers every collection, and the whole library, as ZIP archives in three sizes, the way Wikipedia lets you pick a resolution for a file.

Sizes

Not every collection has three distinct tiers (the Codex Arundel’s reading files are its full-resolution files; Windsor has no reading tier). Asking for a tier a collection lacks returns the nearest larger one.

Archives

Each archive contains one image per page, numbered in reading order (0006_ff-3v-12r.jpg), a manifest.csv mapping every file to its folio label, source URL and page on the site, the collection’s transcriptions.json where e-Leo transcribed it, and a README.txt carrying the institutional credits. The all archive holds one folder per collection. Archives are assembled while you download — nothing is cached ahead of time unless a pre-built copy exists — so a full-resolution codex takes a few minutes and the whole library at full resolution is many gigabytes. For those, use the URL list.

URL lists

A plain-text list of every source file, for wget, curl or aria2, which can resume and retry:
Add &format=csv for index,label,file,source_url,page_url rows instead.

One page

Streams the file with a Content-Disposition so browsers save it under a self-describing name (veni-vidi-da-vinci_codex-arundel_0006_ff-3v-12r_full.jpg). The same image URLs are in every /v1/folios/{slug}/{index} response under image.

Rights

Leonardo’s works are in the public domain. The photography is the work of the holding institutions; every archive’s README carries their credit line — keep it with the files. Windsor images are Royal Collection Trust / © His Majesty King Charles III; Wikimedia Commons files each carry their own licence. The Reader’s Edition layer (titles, summaries, translations) is a Patron benefit and is never bundled. See attribution.