Christie’s has estimated its sale price at between $2.6m and $3.8m. The codex is part of the Bodmer Papyri, which were discovered in the 1950s and comprise biblical texts, Christian writings and ...

These manuscripts are collectively known as “the Dishna Papers” or “the Bodmer Papyri,” after the Swiss collector Martin Bodmer. The Crosby-Schøyen Codex has changed hands many times ...

The Crosby-Schøyen Codex has changed hands many times since its discovery in the 1950s, along with several other religious texts called the Bodmer Papyri. It was acquired by the University of ...

The Crosby-Schoyen Codex is part of the Bodmer Papyri - a collection of texts discovered in the 1950s Christianity's oldest religious book, according to auction house Christie's, has been sold for ...

Another form is the codex, and yet another is the modern e-book ... A proof of this is that in the Library of the Villa of the Papyri, buried in Herculaneum due to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 ...

Although the papyri have similarities with more familiar gospels ... by a community that revered Mary Magdalene and is preserved in the fifth-century Berlin Codex (another important “lost gospel” ...

Then, by comparing it with numerous other digitized papyri, we deciphered it letter ... however, until now, a codex from the 11th century was the oldest known Greek version of the text.