Recent History
The Codex is put on public display once a year in a different city around the world, as shown in the table below. In 2004, it was exhibited in the Château de Chambord, and in 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, Ireland.
| Year | City | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Chambord | France |
| 2005 | Tokyo | Japan |
| 2006 | Seattle | USA |
| 2007 | Dublin | Ireland |
After Gates acquired the Codex from auctioneer and independent consultant Stephen Massey, he had its pages scanned into digital image files, some of which were later distributed as screen saver and wallpaper files on a CD-ROM as Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95. A comprehensive CD-ROM version (simply titled Leonardo da Vinci) was released by Corbis in 1997.
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