A sale at Christies recently would have given you the chance. This 13th century Latin bible, with Jerome’s prologues, sold for $39,000. There were papyri, Syriac mss, fragments of all sorts of things; many of which went for a few thousand dollars. I’m glad I didn’t know about the sale or I might have been tempted to bid! But… whatever would I do with a manuscript, other than gloat over it occasionally?
Roger Pearse
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