In 1842 a member of the Rothschild family paid 151 gold coins for a medieval manuscript, a lavishly illuminated mahzor. It passed down through generations until the Nazis seized it in 1938. Now it’s up for auction. The estimate has gone up since 1842.

JPMorgan has a new office tower in New York. About 10 blocks south is John Pierpont Morgan’s library. How is the Gilded Age financier’s influence felt in both?

Late in rehearsals for “A Little Night Music,” composer Stephen Sondheim was still working on the score. A change in direction meant writing a hitherto unimagined song — fast. In just 24 hours, Sondheim penned perhaps his most iconic song. (Start humming.)

This month, Christine Baranski reads Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” with the Skylark Vocal Ensemble at New York’s Morgan Library. What she says about Scrooge, robber barons, and the quiet places where art and creativity live.

The events at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, in the words recorded that day.

Ancient Egyptians had a way with burials. Archaeologists recently uncovered a 3,500-year-old cemetery in central Egypt. In it: a “Book of the Dead.” The scroll is believed to be 43 to 49 feet long. Beyond that, no one knows — or no one’s telling. Yet.

A look back at Boston’s Antiquarian Book Fair. No QR codes, No eBooks. No PDFs. Just a wealth of old books. And a healthy number of young people.

Today’s scientists view supernovas every year. But those explosions are in galaxies far, far away. To study closer supernovas, scholars are turning to old documents. How old? Egyptian, Chinese, and Japanese scholars documented a cosmic explosion in 1181.

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Behind the debates of Ontario’s parliament is a Legislative Library. It contains nearly 250,000 volumes — and a few scars, reminders of a 1909 fire. Explore the highlights, from a 1490 Latin grammar book to a coloring book preparing children for court.

The Boston Athenaeum holds 200-plus publications in more than 30 Indigenous languages from the United States and Canada. A project to digitize the texts is helping researchers and the public access them.

Manuscripts, first editions, ephemera, maps, autographs … oh, and a First Folio. Looking back at the prizes and people of the 47th Annual Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair.

Forty-odd years ago, a search for obscure Gershwin songs led to a warehouse in Secaucus, NJ. Decades later, lost Fats Waller scores surfaced in his son’s lawyer’s son’s basement, also in New Jersey. What finds like these mean to America’s music heritage.

The Cairo Genizah, found in a synagogue in Old Cairo, contains more than 300,000 handwritten pieces from the ninth to the 19th century. More than a 100 years after the trove’s discovery, machine-readable transcriptions are opening a window on its texts.

The American Numismatic Society is leaving Manhattan for Toledo. With it goes a coin collection that few ever get to see. But that’s about to change.

At the dawn of the print era, the first duke of Ferrara commissioned a Bible dubbed “the Mona Lisa of illuminated manuscripts.” But while the Mona Lisa is a tourist magnet, the Borso D’Este Bible has spent years stored in a safe. Until now.

What’s America’s most beautiful library? Time Out says it’s the New York Public Library. The runner-up: New York’s Morgan Library & Museum. Coming in third: the Boston Athenaeum, then George Peabody Library in Baltimore. What would you add to the list?

Folio, folio, wherefore art thou, folio? Right now, in Abu Dhabi. Through Sunday, a copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio is on show at the Abu Dhabi Art Fair. The fair is free. The folio is … not.

On the block: Scripts from “The Royal Tenenbaums,” “Mississippi Burning,” and “Bonnie and Clyde.” A draft for an abandoned screen adaptation of “The Silence of the Lambs.” Musings on art, found in his studio. All part of actor Gene Hackman’s archive.

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