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Medieval mega-project: The engineering marvel of the Codex Gigas

The Codex Gigas (“Giant Book” in Latin) is believed to have been created in the13th century in the Benedictine monastery of ...
Artnet

The Codex Sassoon, an Ancient Hebrew Bible, Raked in $33.5 Million at Sotheby’s, Making It One of the Most Valuable Manuscripts Ever Sold

The Bible may be the world’s most produced book, but there are few—if any—quite like the Codex Sassoon. Produced by a single, unknown scribe in the Levant around 1,100 years ago, it disappeared for ...
Salon

"The Aleppo Codex": The bizarre history of a precious book

An ancient and priceless book, a murky history of evasions and coverups, an underground of sinister and possibly violent dealers, a former spy who drops tantalizing hints and a wily 84-year-old ...
Barron's

A ‘Crucial Bridge’ to History, the Codex Sassoon Could Fetch $50 Million

A more than 1,000-year-old Hebrew bible known as the Codex Sassoon is being sold by Swiss investor and collector Jacqui Safra in May at Sotheby’s in New York for an estimated US$30 million to US$50 ...
Scroll

How did the scroll of the ancient world evolve into the modern book? (And what is a codex?)

A codex is just the Roman name for a book, made of pages, and usually bound on the left. Its predecessor was the scroll or book roll, which was unrolled as you read. The codex is manifestly superior: ...