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The World’s Most Expensive Book Codex Leicester!

What is Codex Leicester? Codex Leicester is a small manuscript that was written and published in the latter half of the first decade of the 16th century i.e. in 1510. It consists of 18 leaves of folded paper, with 72 pages (36 sheets) of illustrations and text in total. The size of 36 sheets of paper is 29 × 22…