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.
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