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Illuminated manuscript on vellum original owned by John, Duke of Berry and subsequently by Beatrice of Portugal and Henry Pomeroy, 2nd Viscount Harberton. – 1425–1435 December 2006 [167] $1.5 $1.25 A Book of Ryhmes. Miniature manuscript, one of 17 'little' books written by Brontë when she was a child.
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Codex Gigas, the largest manuscript of the World, 13th century; Codex Sinaiticus, 4th century; Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209, 4th century; Codex Bezae, 5th century; Codex Washingtonianus, 4th or 5th century; Dead Sea scrolls; Freising manuscripts, 10th century; The Garland of Howth, late 9th to early 10th centuries; Gospels of Tsar Ivan ...
A rare manuscript featuring early calculations that led to Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity sold for just over $13 million at an auction in Paris Tuesday, becoming the most expensive ...
When the manuscript was last sold to Bill Gates at Christie's auction house on 11 November 1994 in New York for US$30,802,500 (equivalent to $65 million in 2024 [2]), it was the most expensive manuscript ever sold. [3] [4] [5]
The following is an attempt to list some of the most valuable records. Data is sourced from Record Collector , eBay , Popsike, the Jerry Osborne Record Price Guides, and other sources. Wu-Tang Clan 's Once Upon a Time in Shaolin CD (of which only one copy was produced) was sold through Paddle8 on November 24, 2015, for $2,000,000, according to ...
The manuscript was probably purchased for the first Polish National Library, founded in 1747 in Warsaw. [31] Skevra Evangeliary: late 12th century One of the world's most valuable Armenian manuscripts, also known as the Lemberg Gospel. This is an outstanding example of the illuminator's art from Lesser Armenia, or the Armenian Kingdom of ...
This valuable manuscript is owned by Dendermonde Abbey. [3] Historians believe it was first sent to the Belgian Villers Abbey, hence the name Villarensis. It then moved to Gembloux Abbey and finally it arrived in the famous Affligem Abbey, where the monks were chased out in 1796. In 1837, the Affligem community re-established conventual life in ...