The oldest known book in a private collection just sold for a price worthy of its claim to fame. The Crosby-Schøyen Codex hammered down for an eye-popping £3.1 million, or $3.9 million, during a ...
A Book by Its Cover: Decorative Book Bindings from the Medieval Codex to Contemporary Artists’ Books
Oftentimes, we are preoccupied with the contents of a book rather than the book itself. The phrase, “Don’t judge a book by its cover” is preached as a metaphorical reminder not to be quick to judge ...
Written over 800 years ago, the Codex Gigas (also called the “Devil’s Bible”) is one of the most fascinating and interesting medieval artifacts of all time. Thought to have been written by a single ...
Rooted in the medieval tradition of European manuscript culture, Castiglioni Codex brings the art of the book back to its highest form: paper, image, text, and binding united into a single work of ...
Lucia Suarez Sang is an associate managing editor at CBSNews.com. Previously, Lucia was the director of digital content at FOX61 News in Connecticut and has previously written for outlets including ...
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 ...
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