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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dj gamaya" data-source="post: 11793396" data-attributes="member: 61857">"Gospel of Henry the Lion" <img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZRcB-YaW-mw/TwRZUvXDWSI/AAAAAAAAqLY/Euv3jLr5FgA/s1600/Expensive+Books+-+004.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> $ 12.4 million in 1983, the auction Sothebys ($ 26,7 million in current prices). The manuscript includes the four Gospels, has 226 pages, decorated in a  unique style of the monks and novices Helmarshauzen Benedictine abbey.  After the death of Henry the Lion manuscript was long considered lost.  In the XIX century it was discovered in Prague, in 1861 it was purchased  by George V, King of Hanover, which is considered the founder of Henry  the Lion. Five years later, George V was deposed and fled to Austria,  and among other things, took with him the manuscript. Next, trace the  relics was again lost, but in 1983 an unknown seller put "The Gospel of  Henry the Lion," at auction house Sothebys. During the auction, its  owner has become Germany - participated in the financing of the purchase  federal government, the governments of Bavaria and Lower Saxony, as  well as fund "Prussian Cultural Heritage." In the present manuscript in  the library named after the Duke August in Wolfenbüttel (Germany). </blockquote>

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