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If the finest copies of the Gutenberg Bible are estimated around 20 million euros, which itself can now be estimated around 16 million euros, it is the Gospels of Henry the Lion who occupies third place with a price of EUR 9.8 million achieved at Sotheby's in 1983.
Commissioned by Henry the Lion from the monastery Helmarshausen, these gospels were written and carefully illustrated in 1188. The book is sumptuous, reflecting the richness of illumination and piety of the twelfth century.
It is stored at the Library of Wolfenbuttel where a facsimile replaced when it is not exposed.
The original date of 1188 and was written in the monastery Helmarshausen on the banks of the Weser. The Duke of Brunswick, Henry the Lion, was commissioned for the church of Saint Blaise in Brunswick. This manuscript is very well preserved one of the witnesses the most sumptuous art books and medieval piety.
24 of its 226 pages are parchment enjolivées de miniatures.
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