Bill Gates is the type of billionaire who steps out of his private jet with a plastic bag in his hand and a €100 watch on his wrist. Yet there are things that Bill Gates spent unimaginable amounts of money. One of them is the Codex Leicester. This is a valuable manuscript written by Leonardo Da Vinci himself, who Bill Gates taken in 1994 in New Yorkfor $30, which is the equivalent of about $820 million today. This single book is therefore Billa GatesIt cost over a billion crowns. To this day, it is in the private collection of Mr. Gatese, but to give the public access to it, he did Bill something unexpected. Just a year after he acquired it, he had its pages scanned by professional scanners at the museum and converted into digital form. He then began to digitize a number of the pages thus digitized. Microsoft distributed on CD as screensavers and desktop wallpapers within the so-called Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95.
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The surfaces were also part of Windows 98 to Windows ME. Later, in 1997, a CD called Leonardo da Vinci was released, which contained almost all the pages from the aforementioned manuscript. In order for ordinary people to have the opportunity to see one of the most valuable, not only in terms of sales value, but especially in terms of ideas, the book of the world in its real form, the Codex Leicester was untied and its individual pages were placed between solid glass panes. Once a year, it is then exhibited in a different place in the world, where people have the opportunity to view it. It is not yet known where the manuscript will appear this year, but in the past, in addition to a number of museums in the USA, Korea, China and the like, we have had the opportunity to see it, for example, in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
By the way, my wife and I have been to the Uffizi Gallery several times and I must say that you can regularly find many works by DaVinci there and if you really like him, even better than the gallery itself is to visit the nearby library in Florence, where they have a historical section, which also contains his originals, including the most famous drawings in the world. Currently, Leonardo DaVinci's manuscript is the second most expensive book in the world, after the Book of Mormon, which sold for 35 million dollars in 2017. Taking into account inflation, it would still be the most expensive book in the world today. onen Codex Leicester.
