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Title: [Sale Catalogue of] The Codex Leicester. Sold by Order of the Trustees of the Holkham Hall Estate. Friday 12 December 1980. NEAR FINE COPY
Description: Christie's,, 1980. 4to., with a fine coloured frontispiece, 90 fine coloured facsimiles (the great majority full-page) in the text and decorative endpapers; original printed boards framed in gilt, a near fine copy. The world-famous Da Vinci manuscript is reproduced page by page, with the facsimiles on the versos and corresponding descriptions, summaries and catalogue notes (supported as appropriate by smaller facsimiles) on the facing rectos. The MS was purchased by Bill Gates for the sum of GBP2.2 million.

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