A 600-Year-Old Book Is Found

What a find. One  question I have is how did it last that long without deteriorating, and I wonder where/how it was stored?

The town museum in Sandy, UT, was holding an antiques fundraiser, inviting residents to donate money to find out how much their valuables were worth.

A rare book dealer, Ken Sanders, could not stop looking at what may have been the biggest findings of his career, when a man paid $2 to have his antique book examined.

“A gentleman walked in and said I’ve got a really important book here and I’m sitting there rolling my eyes and thing, ‘yeah, sure you do,’” Sanders said. “Then he opens it up and it’s a Nuremberg Chronicles from 1494.”

The Nuremberg Chronicles, comes from a time known as “the cradle pf printing,” is one of the world’s oldest printed books.

“And you can see all of the wonderful wood-cut illustrations,” Sanders said.

The woodcut illustrations, with more than 1800 of them inside the book, would have been older than Shakespeare. They were written to be a companion to the Guttenberg Bible, published 40 years earlier.

Sanders first estimate was that the book was worth more than $100,000.

The owner of the book said he does not plan to go for top dollar, and just wants to make it available for the public to see.

via A 600-year-old book is found - KPLC 7 News, Lake Charles, Louisiana.