Ripley Scroll News Today

The lots offered for sale here are the highlights of one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of manuscripts ever assembled: The Schøyen Collection. The importance of the materials in this collection goes far beyond the scope of a private collection, or even a national public collection. The sale spans 1,300 years of cultural history and includes world heritage manuscripts such as the Crosby-Schoyen Codex, the Holkham Hebrew Bible and the Geraardsbergen Bible, but also Greek litera...

Some are written in codes or ciphers that haven’t been cracked, while others are purposefully designed to remain incomprehensible forever.

The Princeton University Library explores the allegorical language of alchemy in pre-modern Europe, with a focused look at the Ripley Scrolls