Manuscript

A group of Alan Turing papers smashed estimates at auction in Lichfield.

Hong Kong auctioneer CC Wang conducted Sotheby’s ‘longest ever bidding battle’ when a calligraphy handscroll by a Yuan dynasty master took over 200 bids and 97 minutes to sell.

Dealer Les Enluminures has sold a ‘pioneering-feminist’ medieval manuscript to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

The rediscovered diary of Bloomsbury artist Duncan Grant (1885-1978) drew strong interest this week after emerging at an auction at Gorringe's in Lewes, East Sussex.

A draft of a composition by Edward Elgar has been acquired by the British Library in a deal organised through Christie’s.

This year’s TEFAF Restoration Fund goes to the Musée Condé, Château de Chantilly, which houses a remarkable historic single-owner collection, and specifically to the outstanding medieval manuscript 'Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry'.

Bob Dylan’s draft lyrics for 1965 hit 'Mr Tambourine Man' sold for $400,000 (£320,800) plus 27% buyer’s premium at Julien’s Auctions in Nashville, US, earlier this month.

A bible written and illuminated by the Sarum Master has returned to Salisbury Cathedral 700 years after being written there.

The manuscript of Franz Kafka’s short story 'Erstes Leid', or First Sorrow, accompanied by a three-page letter to his publisher will appear at auction in Hamburg on November 23.