Gospels go on display
NZPA-Reuter Bonn One of the world’s most expensive works of art, the 800-year-old Gospels of Henry the Lion, went on show to the public in Bonn yesterday under heavy security. The lavishly illustrated manuscript, considered to be one of the jewels of the German cultural heritage, will be on display at the Lower Saxony state
mission in Bonn until March 9. West Germany bought the book at an auction in London in December, 1983, for a record £8.14 million ($21.5 million) including sale fees — a price that has remained unsurpassed at public auction since. The handwritten Gospels take their name from Henry, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, who com-
missioned the work at great expense from an abbey near Brunswick in about 1170. The Bonn Government, the states of Lower Saxony and Bavaria, the Prussian Cultural Foundation, and private donors raised the money to secure the art treasure from an anonymous seller, outbidding a collector from the United States.
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