Editing Codex Leicester (section)

=== Codex Hammer ===
The codex was purchased at auction from the Leicester estate in 1980 by the wealthy industrialist and art collector [[Armand Hammer]], for $5.1&nbsp;million (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US|5.1|1980}}&nbsp;million in {{Inflation-year|US}}); he later renamed the notebook the Codex Hammer.<ref>{{cite news|last=Christopher Reynolds and Hugh Hart|title=The Da Vinci codex versus the museum code|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-15-et-hammer15-story.html|access-date=27 March 2013|newspaper=LA Times|date=15 January 2007}}</ref> Hammer commissioned Leonardo da Vinci scholar [[Carlo Pedretti]] to compile the loose pages of the codex back into its original form. Over the next seven years, Pedretti translated each page to English, completing the project in 1987.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Pedretti|first1=Carlo (introduction)|last2=Roberts|first2=Jane (catalogue)|title=Leonardo da Vinci: the Codex Hammer: formerly the Codex Leicester|date=1981|publisher=Armand Hammer Foundation|location=Los Angeles|isbn=0384205909}}</ref>