In 1994, Bill Gates bought The Codex Hammer at an auction for $30.8 million, making it the most expensive book ever. Whose writings does it contain?
"Philbin, the museum has ""defined our primary audience as artists"". Visitor numbers are also not limited to the Hammer's own box office but might also include people around the world who log on to the museum's Web site to view podcasts of public programs, or visit travelling exhibitions which the Hammer organized. In 1994, the Hammer Museum made headlines by selling Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester to Microsoft founder Bill Gates for $30.8 million. The Codex Leicester was one of Dr. Hammer's proudest acquisitions, purchased in 1980 for $5.12 million, and one which he unsuccessfully tried to rename the ""Codex"
"copious drawings and diagrams. The Codex was purchased at auction from the Leicester estate in 1980, by wealthy industrialist and art collector Armand Hammer, for $5.1 million ($ in dollars), later renaming the notebook Codex Hammer. Hammer commissioned Leonardo da Vinci scholar, Dr. Carlo Pedretti, to compile the loose pages of the codex back into its original form. Over the next 7 years Dr. Pedretti translated each page to English, completing the project in 1987. The Codex was sold to Bill Gates by Christie's auction house on 11 November 1994 in New York for . After Gates acquired the Codex,"
"Codex Leicester The Codex Leicester (also briefly known as Codex Hammer) is a collection of scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci. The Codex is named after Thomas Coke, later created Earl of Leicester, who purchased it in 1719. The manuscript currently holds the record for the second highest sale price of any book, as it was sold to Bill Gates at Christie's auction house on 11 November 1994 in New York for (). The Codex provides an insight into the inquiring mind of the definitive Renaissance artist, scientist and thinker as well as an exceptional illustration of the link between"
"in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill. But the mystery and the beauty of the world is overwhelmingly amazing, and there's no scientific explanation of how it came about. To say that it was generated by random numbers, that does seem, you know, sort of an uncharitable view [laughs]. I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know. Gates purchased the Codex Leicester, a collection of scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci, for $30.8 million at an"
"In 1982, Blyth-Hill restored the Codex Leicester (a Leonardo ""notebook"" on the nature of water), owned by Dr. Armand Hammer (now owned by Bill Gates). In addition to working extensively with modern and contemporary western art, she had specialized training and experience with Asian, East and South Asian art, including Indian Miniatures, Japanese prints, Japanese screens and Tibetan thangka. In 1984, Hill was chosen to study Japanese screen mounting with Sigura, one of the Living National Treasures of Japan and a former mounter at the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C. The three-month intensive program for 10 professional international art conservators"
"the Codex Leicester, which Microsoft founder Bill Gates bought in 1994. This version was released in 1997 and targeted at children of ages 12 and under. It includes three new applications: Talk It!, a text-to-speech program that says what users type using various voices; Play It!, an electronic keyboard with music and sound effects; and Paint It!, a version of Paint oriented for kids. It also contained a ""picture picker"" along with clipart, fonts, 10 new desktop themes, and Protect It!, parental controls for Internet Explorer. Plus! for Kids! was the only Plus! release from the Microsoft Home and Entertainment"
"in the world until 1994, when Bill Gates bought the Codex Leicester, a manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci. The gospel book, preserved completely intact, with 50 full page miniatures, is kept in the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, and for security reasons is displayed only once every two years. Gospels of Henry the Lion The Gospels of Henry the Lion were intended by Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony, for the altar of the Virgin Mary in the church of St. Blaise's Abbey, Brunswick, better known as Brunswick Cathedral. The volume is considered a masterpiece of Romanesque book illumination of"
"that computer technology could be a form of art. ""The Wall Street Journal"" wrote that while Da Vinci is a popular subject for video games, this title ""beats them all"". Corbis did not earn a profit from the game. Leonardo da Vinci (video game) Leonardo da Vinci is a 1997 interactive CD-ROM game by Corbis, consisting of a ""computerized viewing tool which permits the user to examine English translations of the Codex [Leicester] superimposed onto facsimiles of its pages"". The tool, known as Codescope, is licensed by Corbis. In 1994, Bill Gates acquired the Codex Leicester. In 1997, Gates' privately"
"twelve-volume ""Codex Atlanticus"", and British Library in London, which has put a selection from the ""Codex Arundel"" (BL Arundel MS 263) online. The ""Codex Leicester"" is the only major scientific work of Leonardo in private hands; it is owned by Bill Gates and is displayed once a year in different cities around the world. Leonardo's notes appear to have been intended for publication because many of the sheets have a form and order that would facilitate this. In many cases a single topic, for example, the heart or the human fetus, is covered in detail in both words and pictures"
"the monk Herimann (mentioned by name in the dedication), commissioned by Duke Henry the Lion for Brunswick Cathedral. The volume was sold at auction on 6 December 1983 at Sotheby's in London for £8,140,000, which made it the most expensive book in the world until the sale of the Codex Hammer in 1994. Only a few buildings remain of the former abbey, which are now used by the present parish for various purposes, including as a leisure centre and a kindergarten. A facsimile of the Gospels of Henry the Lion is displayed in the local museum. Helmarshausen Abbey Helmarshausen Abbey"
"trade paperback, with the subtitle ""Completely revised and up-to-date."". Both editions came with a CD-ROM that contained the text of the book and supplemental information. The hardback was published by Viking, and the paperback by Penguin, an affiliate of Viking. Numerous publishers around the world produced translated versions of the book. One of Gates' coauthors, Nathan Myhrvold, was a computer scientist and Microsoft vice president who for a time oversaw Microsoft's research efforts and later co-founded Intellectual Ventures, an intellectual property company. The other co-author, Peter Rinearson, was a Pulitzer Prize winner and entrepreneur who later founded and sold an"
"sold 2.5 million copies. A reviewer at ""The Seattle Times"" (and coauthor of ""Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry and Made Himself the Richest Man in America"", a 1993 biography of Gates), called Gates' coverage of the Internet ""weakest of all"" the topics Gates covered, saying the ""World Wide Web receives just four index citations and is treated as a functional appendage of the Internet (rather than its driving force), and both come off as a subset of the Information Highway, a term Gates uses with abandon."" ""The New York Times"" review called the book ""bland and tepid"" and"
"formerly Codex Leicester, now owned by Bill Gates) who designed the façade of the Church of the Gesù in Rome. The ruins now consist of the southern stone façade—intricately carved between 1620 and 1627 by Japanese Christians in exile from their homeland and local craftsmen under the direction of Italian Jesuit Carlo Spinola—and the crypts of the Jesuits who established and maintained the church. The façade sits on a small hill, with 68 stone steps leading up to it. The carvings include Jesuit images with Oriental themes, such as The Blessed Virgin Mary stepping on a seven-headed hydra, described in"
"collection of upwards of 300 songs by Wilson, Lawes, Johnson, Gamble, and other English composers, containing also the autograph inscription, ""John Gamble his book, Amen. 1659 Anno Domini"" Hughes quotes a contemporaneous report of the hammer price and comment: ""Thirteen guineas, for America."" The reference was to the Philadelphia-born financier Joseph W. Drexel who had already amassed a large music library and purchased about 300 lots from the Rimbault auction. Upon Drexel's death, he bequeathed his music library to The Lenox Library. When the Lenox Library merged with the Astor Library to become the New York Public Library, the Drexel"
"at auction for $391,000. Rare books dealer Ken Sanders claims a copy was sold privately in Utah for $500,000. Many of the revelations in the ""Book of Commandments"" were also printed in the official church newspaper ""Evening and Morning Star"", with relatively superficial and typographical edits. A much more ambitious revision was made in 1835, when all the revelations contained in the ""Book of Commandments"" were edited for inclusion in a larger text of Mormon scriptures called the ""Doctrine and Covenants"" (commonly abbreviated ""D&C""). In addition to many superficial changes, this latter work contains significant redactions, deletions, and additions of"
"and hers locker rooms, each containing their own bathrooms and saunas. You can swim underneath the building and end up in a smaller outdoor pool; a massive 2,100 square foot library with an oculus and multiple secret rooms, one of which houses Leonardo Da Vinci's Codex Leicester manuscript that cost Bill $30.8 million at an auction and reportedly another one holds a bar. Engraved atop the oculus is a quote from The Great Gatsby that reads ""He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to"
"Broome was quoted saying, ""I love the painting. As a child, I used to admire it. I think it's the most powerful painting in the country."" He was reluctant to sell it, but decided, ""I'm 80 years old"" and ""It's time to let go."" Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates purchased it for a record price, over $30 million. He was involved in a variety of different charitable organizations. He supported and helped launch Casa Pacifica, a home in Camarillo that helps to care for abused, neglected and emotionally disturbed children. He supported and donated to Louisiana State University, his alma mater."
"auction in 1994. Gates is an avid reader, and the ceiling of his large home library is engraved with a quotation from ""The Great Gatsby"". He also enjoys playing bridge, tennis, and golf. In 1999, his wealth briefly surpassed $101 billion. Despite his wealth and extensive business travel, Gates usually flew coach in commercial aircraft until 1997, when he bought a private jet. Since 2000, the nominal value of his Microsoft holdings has declined due to a fall in Microsoft's stock price after the dot-com bubble burst and the multibillion-dollar donations he has made to his charitable foundations. In a"
"preserving it as a whole rather than selling individual pages. He also purchased, on behalf of a client, a complete set of the Daniel Bomberg Babylonian Talmud for $9.3 million in 2015, the highest price ever paid for an item of Judaica at auction. Loewentheil's personal collection includes some of the oldest surviving Hebrew Bible manuscript scrolls, including the earliest Torah scroll sheet of the Exodus story, the so-called ""London Manuscript."" The manuscript contains the text of Exodus 9:18–13:2 (the Seventh through Tenth plagues, the Passover, and the Exodus). Loewentheil loaned the manuscript to the Israel Museum in 2010, where"
"in April and purchased it from Hofmann for more than $20,000. Appraised by the LDS Church for $25,000, it was purchased on October 13 in exchange for several artifacts the church owned in duplicate, including a $5 gold Mormon coin, Deseret banknotes, and a first edition of the Book of Mormon. Assuming the document to be genuine, prominent Mormon academic Hugh Nibley predicted that the discovery promised ""as good a test as we'll ever get of the authenticity of the Book of Mormon"" because he thought the paper might be translated. Zoology professor Barry Fell soon after claimed to have"
"the size and weight of the book, a bespoke stand was designed by Phillipe Starck to support it. The first copy of the book was signed by 80 of the celebrities featured in it. This was subsequently sold at auction in Berlin on 6 August 2000 for $430,000, becoming the biggest and most expensive book produced in the 20th century. A subsequent edition, edited by Newton’s widow June, was released in September 2009. Although oversized, it was much smaller, measuring about 12 by 17 inches. This edition came with a perspex stand to display it and retailed for $150. Other"
"Atlas"" for £1.46 million, the highest price ever paid for an atlas, although this record was surpassed by the ""Cosmographia"" the following year. In April 2004, the atlas had been saved from a fire at Wardington Manor in Oxfordshire, when local residents formed a human chain to remove items from the library. Shapero Rare Books owned about 6,000 books, ranging in price from £50 to over £200,000, and £6,000 on average. The business was sold by Shapero to Philip Blackwell, a director of the family business Blackwell Publishing, which had been sold to the US John Wiley & Sons in"
"It was later owned by the Englishman Richard Hakluyt. According again to Samuel Purchase, Hakluyt bought the Codex for 20 French francs. Some time after 1616 it was passed to Samuel Purchase, then to his son, and then to John Selden. The codex was deposited into the Bodleian Library at Oxford University in 1659, five years after Selden's death, where it remained in obscurity until 1831, when it was rediscovered by Viscount Kingsborough and brought to the attention of scholars. Written on European paper, it contains 71 pages, divided into three sections: Folios 73 to 85 of MS. Arch. Selden."
"For many decades, the Codex was preserved in the Russian National Library. In 1933, the Soviet Union sold the codex to the British Museum (after 1973 British Library) for £100,000 raised by public subscription (worth £ in 2019). After coming to Britain it was examined by Skeat and Milne using an ultra-violet lamp. In May 1975, during restoration work, the monks of Saint Catherine's Monastery discovered a room beneath the St. George Chapel which contained many parchment fragments. Kurt Aland and his team from the Institute for New Testament Textual Research were the first scholars who exclusively were invited to"
"placed by most authorities at about 1175 (""early dating"") but today the balance of opinion puts it at about 1188 (""late dating""). The manuscript, containing 266 pages with the text of the four gospels, 50 of them full page illustrations, was sold by auction on 6 December 1983 at Sotheby's in London for £8,140,000. The purchase price was raised, in the context of a German national initiative for the preservation of national treasures, by the German government, the ""Bundesländer"" of Lower Saxony and Bavaria, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz and private donors (largely from Brunswick). It was the most expensive book"
"The Road Ahead (Bill Gates book) The Road Ahead is a book written by Bill Gates, co-founder and then-CEO of the Microsoft software company, together with Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold and journalist Peter Rinearson. Published in November 1995, then substantially revised about a year later, ""The Road Ahead"" summarized the implications of the personal computing revolution and described a future profoundly changed by the arrival of a global information superhighway. Gates received a $2.5 million advance for his book and money from subsidiary rights sales; all his proceeds were donated to ""encourage the use of technology in education administered through"
"Leonardo da Vinci (video game) Leonardo da Vinci is a 1997 interactive CD-ROM game by Corbis, consisting of a ""computerized viewing tool which permits the user to examine English translations of the Codex [Leicester] superimposed onto facsimiles of its pages"". The tool, known as Codescope, is licensed by Corbis. In 1994, Bill Gates acquired the Codex Leicester. In 1997, Gates' privately held company Corbis released a CD-Rom version of the manuscript. On October 25, 1996 it was announced the game would be ready for the holiday season (Microsoft Windows in November and Macintosh in December), but this was ultimately postponed."
"such to be privately owned and the only one accompanied both by a letter from Lincoln transmitting the manuscript and by the original envelope addressed and franked by Lincoln. The library houses cuneiform tablets; a major collection of medieval books and witchcraft trial records; thousands of pamphlets produced during the French Revolution; and the correspondence between Jefferson and Lafayette. It also holds a copy of ""The Birds of America,"" which is considered the most expensive book in the world. The library also has first editions of Darwin's ""Origin of Species"" (1859), the Book of Mormon (1830), and of Jane Austen's"
"The Tales of Beedle the Bard The Tales of Beedle the Bard is a book of children's stories by British author J. K. Rowling. There is a storybook of the same name mentioned in ""Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"", the last book of the ""Harry Potter"" series. The book was originally produced in a limited edition of only seven copies, each handwritten and illustrated by J. K. Rowling. One of them was offered for auction through Sotheby's in late 2007 and was expected to sell for £50,000 (US$77,000, €69,000); ultimately it was bought for £1.95 million ($3 million, €2.7"
"by billionaire Jeffrey Skoll, who was the first employee and also first president of internet auction firm eBay. Sheikha Al Mayassa's wealth and role as Chairperson of Qatar Museums make her influential among art collectors. Bloomberg reported her acquisition budget on behalf of Qatar Museums is estimated at $1 billion annually. Sheikha Al Mayassa is said to have purchased the most expensive painting in the world, Paul Gauguin's When Will You Marry? in 2015 for $300 million, Cezanne's The Card Players in 2012 for $250 million, as well as Mark Rothko's White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) in"
"Bill Gates Sr. William Henry Gates II (born November 30, 1925), better known as Bill Gates Sr., is an American retired attorney and philanthropist and author of the book ""Showing Up for Life: Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime"". He is the father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. One of a line of businessmen named William H. Gates, and sometimes called William Gates Jr. in his career, he is now generally known as William Henry Gates Sr. due to the greater prominence of his son William H. Gates III (Bill Gates). Gates was born in 1925 in Bremerton, Washington,"
"SpaceShipOne, his purchase of the Portland Trailblazers and Seattle Seahawks, his passion for music, and his ongoing support for scientific research. The book made ""The New York Times Best Seller list"". The paperback version of ""Idea Man"", which included a new epilogue, came out on October 30, 2012. Paul Allen Paul Gardner Allen (January 21, 1953 – October 15, 2018) was an American business magnate, investor, software engineer, humanitarian, and philanthropist. Alongside Bill Gates, Allen co-founded Microsoft in 1975, which helped spark the microcomputer revolution and later became the world's largest PC software company. In March 2018, he was estimated"
"His choice of things to take on a desert island were, for music: ""Blue Skies"" by Willie Nelson; book: ""The Better Angels of Our Nature"" by Steven Pinker; and luxury item: a DVD Collection of Lectures from The Teaching Company. Bill Gates William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, humanitarian, and principal founder of Microsoft Corporation. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen launched Microsoft, which"