Holy writ

Porque há histórias que merecem ser lidas fica aqui a história de um pequeno livro que foi escrito vai para 1300 anos...

What is remarkable is not the price; though a record for a religious book, it is still considered a bargain (the Rothschild "Book of Hours", an illuminated work dating from 1505, fetched £8.6m at auction in 1999). Nor is it a shock that the funds have all come from philanthropic sources, given Britain's newly whetted appetite for private giving (see chart below). The real story is the object itself.

In The Economist