Here’s a testament to the serendipity of the internet: Tuesday, MobyLives ran a story about a book brought to an antiques appraiser in Sandy, Utah that turned out to be… Read more »

This is where the amateurs take their seats at the back. Five-million dollars is the estimate put on a single illuminated page from the Shahnamah of Shah Tahmasp of Persia.… 2 / Read more »

The Voynich Manuscript, a book written in an unknown and undecipherable language and illustrated with images of biological specimens, astrological diagrams, and nude woman bathing in a complex system of pool… Read more »

Inspired by MobyLives’s recent maginalia context, MJ Porter (the translator of Melville House’s forthcoming Havana Real, the diary of Cuban activist and blogger Yoani Sánchez) wrote in to tell us… Read more »

We’ve been critical at times of large scale digitalization projects like the ongoing “last library” project being constructed by Google in preparation for their eventual release of Google Editions. We’ve… 2 / Read more »

Is it wrong to use the word pornography to help describe the newly renovated Vatican Apostolic Library? Maybe. But that’s the only word I have for these images of it.… Read more »

Unemployed book dealer Raymond Scott has been convicted of “handling stolen goods in the extraordinary case of a ‘priceless’ Shakespeare First Folio which went missing from a locked cabinet in… Read more »

Catherine Hickly of Bloomberg News reports that, “A New York court ordered a book collector to return a 16th-century volume valued at $600,000 to a museum in Stuttgart, more than… Read more »

Following up on MobyLives earlier post that discovered book heaven, there’s more heaven out there than we knew! This very cool website about bookmarks, yes bookmarks!, has an ongoing post… Read more »

Turkish Cypriot police have seized what they believe to be a “an ancient version of the Bible written in Syriac, a dialect of the native language of Jesus,” according to… Read more »