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Rare Leonardo da Vinci notebook to go on show at British Library

Written By Unknown on Tuesday, December 4, 2018 | 10:19 AM

Bill Gates to lend notebook in 2019 on 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death

Bill Gates is to lend the British Library a rare Leonardo da Vinci notebook that he bought for more than $30m (£23.5m) in 1994 and that was for centuries owned by an English aristocratic family.

The loan means the notebook, the Codex Leicester, can be shown alongside two other British-owned Leonardo notebooks in the UK for the first time.

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