Billionaire developer and Palm Beach resident Ken Griffin's most recent purchases include rare copies of the Emancipation ...

Griffin paid a record $13.7M for the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation. Both documents were signed by Abraham Lincoln.

The Codex sale marked a record for a historical manuscript, besting the $31 million Bill Gates paid for Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester back in 1994.

The record-breaking price surpassed the 1994 sale of Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester manuscript, which sold for $30.8 million. U.S. Ambassador to Romania Alfred Moses purchased the Codex ...

The "Codex Sassoon," an ancient Hebrew Bible written in the late 9th or early 10th century, was purchased Wednesday at Sotheby’s in New York City for $38.1 million.. For the record: The price ...

The Codex Sassoon, a 10th century Hebrew Bible, goes up for sale at Sotheby’s in May and could become the most valuable book ever sold at auction. “It’s one of the world’s greatest ...

The Codex Sassoon is more than 1,000 years old, dating from the late 9th or early 10th century, and sold for $38.1 million at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday.

Its record-setting price bested that of Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester manuscript, which sold for US$30.8 million in 1994 to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

The Codex Leicester, a journal with writings by Leonardo Da Vinci, fetched $30.8 million in 1994. And a copy of the Magna Carta sold for $21.1 million in 2007.

The price surpasses the $30.8 million paid in 1994 for Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester manuscript, Sotheby's said. But it was below the estimated $50 million that Sotheby's said in February ...