Fozi-Jones demonstrates by reframing of Romanesque "portraits" as avatars or representatives for generations of the book's users. The Helmarshausen Psalter has long been characterized as the "little sister" of another, far more famous twelfth-century manuscript: The Gospels of Henry the Lion. The latter shot to celebrity status when it was auctioned at Sotheby's for 140,000 British pounds in 1983, becoming the world's most expensive book--a title it maintained until 1994, when Bill Gates purchased Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester. While Gates's interest in Leonardo reflected an appreciation for the history of science, and perhaps a desire to connect his own reputation as a "genius" to that of a universally acclaimed Renaissance man, the appeal of the Gospel book was rooted in a very different set of factors.