Tischendorf promised Alexander he would turn over the valuable manuscripts to the Russian Orthodox Church after he translated them. The czar ordered the monks, who had guarded the codex for ...

But the ancient manuscript is all the more fascinating if you look at the other documents it includes, the social and political context that produced it and the theology it reveals. The codex ...

It exchanged hands a couple of times in the 1980s before being purchased by Norwegian manuscript collector Martin Schøyen in 1988. As such, the codex is the oldest known book in private hands.

The manuscript is the world’s oldest nearly ... “It was my mission, realizing the historic significance of Codex Sassoon, to see that it resides in a place with global access to all people.” ...

Citing the mysterious Voynich Manuscript, an undeciphered text from ... Published in 1981 in Italy as a two-volume affair, the Codex was later reprinted as a single volume in the US, Germany ...

The history of the book in India follows a path that is markedly different from what is typically seen in other major literate cultures of the ancient world. First of all, we have no direct evidence ...

Together, this manuscript and the Dresden Codex proved essential in the later decoding of the Maya's calendar system and their advanced understanding of astronomy and mathematics. Actual ...

In 1994, he purchased Leonardo da Vinci's "Codex Leicester," a manuscript that dates back to the 16th century. He paid $30.8 million for the journal at auction, a price that made it the most ...