An image of the Codex Sassoon, one of the most complete ancient bibles in existence that was sold at auction for $38 million in May. The record sale is one of many that are propelling the rare books ...
Mike Morgan used to laugh when he told friends that on the salary of a mere church organist, he managed to amass one of the world’s best private collections of English language Bibles. But he did. He ...
HAGERSTOWN, Md. — The antique Bible market is hot. But if you don't have the money to buy a first edition King James Version you still can get your hands on one at the Christian Heritage Museum, whose ...
A 1983 routine cleaning at Boerne High School in Texas yielded a rare and precious find: a thick, ornate Bible wrapped in cloth and written in low German. Now it will soon be seen online. Here's a ...
Thanks to a donation from Tony Comper, the former Bank of Montreal CEO and longtime board chair of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of St. Michael’s College, a complete ...
Two volunteers sorting through donations at an Oxfam charity shop in Essex were surprised to uncover a rare copy of the first Bible ever translated into Chinese — a discovery that later sold at ...
BALTIMORE — Joseph McGraw had doubts when his friend told him about a first edition of the King James Bible that was sitting in a downtown Baltimore office. But when the hulking book came off the ...
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) -- The antique Bible market is hot. But if you don't have the money to buy a first edition King James Version you still can get your hands on one at the Christian Heritage Museum, ...
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO — Inside St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Colorado Springs, Father Matt Holcombe pages through a copy of the first illuminated, or illustrated, handwritten Bible created in 500 ...
Here's a real-life mystery for you. A small-town Texas librarian finds a musty, old Bible and soon realizes that it's unlike any Bible she's ever seen. It's hundreds of years old and written in a ...