Editing Codex Leicester (section)

=== Bill Gates ===
The codex was sold to [[Bill Gates]] by [[Christie's]] auction house on 11 November 1994 in New York for {{currency|30802500|USD}}.<ref name="Christie's">{{cite web|url=http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/the-leonardo-da-vinci-codex-hammer-2465002-details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=2465002&sid=5e1d02d9-a507-4a1e-9754-562094d8cea2 |title=Christie, Manson and Woods, sale 8030, 11 November 1994 |publisher=Christies.com |date=1994-11-11 |access-date=2013-07-23}}</ref> Until 2021, the codex remained the most expensive book ever sold.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-11-19 |title=Rare first printing of US Constitution sells for record $43M |url=https://apnews.com/article/cryptocurrency-technology-lifestyle-business-arts-and-entertainment-b0ab721a52cf20f2dc1a923f2dae3347 |access-date=2023-07-19 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref>

After Gates acquired the codex, he had its pages scanned into digital image files, some of which were later distributed as [[screensaver]] and [[Wallpaper (computing)|wallpaper]] files on a [[CD-ROM]] as part of a [[Microsoft Plus|Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95]] desktop theme, which would later be included with [[Windows 98]] and [[Windows ME]]. A comprehensive CD-ROM version (titled ''[[Leonardo da Vinci (video game)|Leonardo da Vinci]]'') was released by [[Branded Entertainment Network|Corbis]] in 1997.

The Codex Leicester has been unbound, with each page individually mounted between glass panes. It is on public display once a year in a different city worldwide. In 2000, it was displayed at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/stories/s172765.htm |title=The World Today Archive – Leonardo da Vinci manuscript on display |publisher=Abc.net.au |access-date=2013-07-23}}</ref> In 2004, it was exhibited in the [[Château de Chambord]], and 2005 in [[Tokyo]]. One page was exhibited at the [[Seattle Museum of Flight]]'s 2006 exhibit ''Leonardo da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius''. From June to August 2007, the codex was the centerpiece of a two-month exhibition hosted by the [[Chester Beatty Library]] in [[Dublin]]. The codex was on view at the [[Phoenix Art Museum]] in [[Phoenix, Arizona]], from 24 January 2015 to 12 April 2015 for the exhibition ''Leonardo Da Vinci's Codex Leicester and the Power of Observation''. Its presentation at the Phoenix Art Museum was the first time a work by Leonardo was displayed in Arizona.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.phxart.org/exhibition/codexleicester|title=Phoenix Art Museum – Exhibition Exhibitions|access-date=26 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190930154048/http://www.phxart.org/exhibition/codexleicester|archive-date=30 September 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> The codex was then on view at the [[Minneapolis Institute of Arts]] in an exhibition ''Leonardo Da Vinci, the Codex Leicester, and the Creative Mind'' that opened 21 June 2015, where it remained on display until 30 August 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://new.artsmia.org/davinci-codex/|title=Leonardo da Vinci, the Codex Leicester, and the Creative Mind — Minneapolis Institute of Art – Minneapolis Institute of Art|work=Minneapolis Institute of Art}}</ref> As part of the same tour, the Codex Leicester was also on display at the [[North Carolina Museum of Art]] in Raleigh, North Carolina from 31 October 2015 to 17 January 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ncartmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/11361|title=Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester and the Creative Mind – Exhibitions – NCMA – North Carolina Museum of Art|date=11 March 2021 }}</ref>

For the 500th anniversary of Leonardo's death, the Codex Leicester was on display from 29 October 2018 to 20 January 2019 in [[Florence]] at the Aula Magliabechiana of the [[Uffizi]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Presented to the press the Codex Leicester by Leonardo da Vinci on view at the Uffizi |url=https://www.uffizi.it/en/notices/presented-to-the-press-the-codex-leicester-by-leonardo-da-vinci-on-view-at-the-uffizi |website=Le Gallerie Degli Uffizi |access-date=18 September 2020}}</ref>