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Look inside the rare Leonardo da Vinci notebook that Bill Gates paid more than $30 million for
In 1994, he purchased Leonardo da Vinci's "Codex Leicester," a manuscript that dates back to the 16th century. He paid $30.8 million for the journal at auction, a price that made it the most ...
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Language of Genius: A Leonardo da Vinci Glossary
A singular genius of infinite curiosity, Leonardo da Vinci left behind masterpieces ... these writings were later collected into the Codex on the Flight of Birds, now housed in the Royal Library ...
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Codex Sassoon acquired for ANU Museum of the Jewish People for $38.1 million
The Codex Leicester, a journal with writings by Leonardo Da Vinci, fetched $30.8 million in 1994. And a copy of the Magna Carta sold for $21.1 million in 2007. “This is one of the rarest ...
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The weirdest book in the world just turned 40. We talked to its creator.
Related stories It was Ricci who came up with the idea of calling the work a Codex, something that summoned a connection to Leonardo da Vinci's legendary Codex Atlanticus. Serafini liked the idea ...