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 ...

The Crosby-Schoyen Codex at Christie's auction house in Paris. The manuscript goes up for auction in London on June 11, 2024. Julien De Rosa/AFP via Getty Images An important piece of early Christian ...

Codex Sassoon sells for $33.5 million, a record for a book sold at auction, at Sotheby's in New York on May 17. Codex Sassoon, the oldest Tanach in private hands, was sold last week Wednesday, May 17, ...

This codex is a mid-fourth century book from Egypt containing a combination of biblical and other early Christian texts. An important piece of early Christian history, the Crosby-Schøyen Codex, is up ...

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 ...