Apart from a manuscript held in the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, it is the only surviving work detailing the genesis of general relativity. It features 26 pages in Einstein’s hand and 25 in Besso’s, with three pages of entries by both. Written between June 1913 and early 1914, the Einstein-Besso Manuscript expands on the theory of relativity Einstein had published in 1905. 54Ī 54-page working manuscript, written by Albert Einstein and the Swiss-Italian engineer Michele Besso, broke the record for an autographed scientific document when it sold for €11,656,560 on 23 November at Christie’s in Paris. All proceeds of the sale went to the Morgan Library, the Cloisters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA and the Redwood Athenaeum. Leading the collection was an illuminated Book of Hours, circa 1440, above, by the Master of the Paris Bartholomeus Anglicus, which achieved $3,630,000 - more than double the low estimate. Seventeen illuminated manuscripts and more than 200 incunabula from their collection were offered in a single-owner sale that realised a total of $12,405,625, hammering 142 per cent above low estimate.
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