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The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex, hand-written in an unknown script referred to as Voynichese. [18] The vellum on which it is written has been carbon-dated to the early 15th century (1404–1438). Stylistic analysis has indicated the manuscript may have been composed in Italy during the Italian Renaissance.
When the manuscript was last sold to Bill Gates at Christie's auction house on 11 November 1994 in New York for US$30,802,500 (equivalent to $63 million in 2023 [2]), it was the most expensive manuscript ever sold. [3] [4] [5]
Minuscule 69 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 505 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), [1] known as the Codex Leicester, or Codex Leicestrensis, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on paper and parchment leaves.
The manuscript was sold at auction in 1692 and is now probably Sloane MS 8, based on Jim Reeds' identification. ... (Full view book with PDF download at Internet ...
violoncello, cello, manuscript: The largest single holding of cello music–related materials in the world, including annotated sheet music (manuscript and published), monographs, serials, audio/video recordings, personal papers, and artifacts associated with noted cellists. Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG
The Codex Gigas opened to the page with the distinctive portrait of the Devil from which the text received its byname, the Devil's Bible. [1]The Codex Gigas ("Giant Book"; Czech: Obří kniha) is the largest extant medieval illuminated manuscript in the world, at a length of 92 cm (36 in). [2]
The Codex Trivulzianus is a manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci that originally contained 62 sheets, but today only 55 remain. [1] It documents Leonardo's attempts to improve his modest literary education, through long lists of learned words copied from authoritative lexical and grammatical sources. The manuscript also contains studies of military ...
The manuscript contains 283 paper leaves of various sizes, most of them around 22 cm × 16 cm. [1] Only a few of the leaves are blank. Two folios , 100 and 101, were incorrectly numbered twice. [ clarification needed ] The codex is a collection of Leonardo's manuscripts originating from every period in his working life, a span of 40 years from ...