The "Sassoon Codex" dates from the late 9th or early 10th century
The price was reached in just 4 minutes of contested bidding between two buyers, according to Sotheby's auction house in New York.
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Contents:
Paul Magdalino, Maria Mavroudi:
Introduction.
Maria Mavroudi:
Occult Sciences and Society in Byzantium: Considerations for Future Research.
Katerina Ierodiakonou:
The Byzantine Concept of Sympatheia and its Appropriation in Michael Psellos.
Paul Magdalino:
Occult Sciences and Imperial Power in Byzantine History and...
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Byzantium in the 15th century is too easily dismissed as the anachronistic tail end of an ancient ecumenical empire, whose only achievements, apart from the heroic last stand of Constantinople in 1453, were the...
L. Ron Hubbard's “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health” made its debut on May 9, 1950, and the results of the technique contributed to its swift rise to the top of bestseller lists....
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The book explores aniconic tendencies in the post-iconoclastic lectionaries, with special emphasis on illuminated initial letters, unravelling their sources and models and offering an innovative approach to the enigma of their sudden and widespread...
In a parchment on which the work of an early medieval author was written, scientists found a description of a meteoroscope - a unique instrument of an ancient astronomer, which until now was known...
This week, Brigham Young University engineers released the results of a unique project they embarked on: making the smallest Book of Mormon ever.
Tiny books of scriptures have been in the works for a while....
It didn’t involve any killer clowns, haunted hotels, or avenging, telekinetic high schoolers, but this summer, author Stephen King began telling a new scary story: the precarious state of the US book industry in...
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While I may not read as much as I’d like to, there is nothing I enjoy more than...
"How to Survive Death" is also about the author’s journey, an autobiography, from rebellious youth to a fulfilling life, helping others achieve their full potential. On that journey, he never stopped searching for better...
Amazon is getting flooded with counterfeit versions of books, angering customers and authors alike who say the site is doing little to fight the literary fraudsters.
Forgeries sold by third parties through Amazon range from...
Three independent publishers were allegedly rejected for books on 2019 protests
Three independent publishers were allegedly barred from the Hong Kong book fair for printing pro-democracy books on the 2019 protests. (Photo: Unsplash)
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In the postwar years, there were so many Jews in the American publishing industry that some writers began coining a phrase to describe them: “The literary mafia.”
This mafia, they believed, secretly ensured that Jewish...
Euthanasia and Secularism - Every year, Derecho y Religión (Law and Religion) analyses monographically some specific issues related to the external manifestations of religion, from a strictly legal perspective.
Each volume consists exclusively of doctrinal...
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ARIYALUR: Bookstall owners and publishers, whop are upset over poor sales at the book fair being held in Ariyalur Government Higher Secondary School, have urged the district administration for better promotion. The footfall...
Ukraine is closing the book on scores of Russian authors … that stops the printing of books by Russian citizens unless they … collapse of the Soviet Union.
Books printed in Russia, its ally … would place limits on Russian books and music in Ukraine.Ukrainian …
Discovering new books online is a challenge, which several companies are trying to address.
By Shubhangi Shah
Amazon, the trillion-dollar multinational conglomerate that now deals with e-commerce, cloud computing, streaming services and artificial intelligence, started in...
Poet Gloria Muñoz hosts a discussion and signing by “Little God” author Avni Vyas and illustrator Mimi Cirbusova, along with poet Emily Carr (”Name Your Bird Without a Gun”), at 7 p.m. June 15...
Bud Smith, 40 ans, a écrit son roman "Teenager", (Vintage Books) une histoire d'amour adolescente Bonnie and Clyde-esque - sur son iPhone mostly while sitting in his work truck, a Chevy Silverado 2500.
ABU DHABI, 26th May, 2022 (WAM) -- The 31st Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF 2022) hosted the latest meeting of book fair directors from across the Arab world.
The 19th Meeting of Arab Book...
Sci-fi books: Speculative fiction has long attracted teens and young adults—the lure of the unknown and magic. From space opera to hard sci-fi, from military science fiction to post-apocalyptic and dystopian, and from magical...