Bible auctions are notable auctions or sales of authentic manuscripts of the Bible:
- the earliest (late 800s-early 900s A.D.) and most complete Hebrew Bible manuscript sold in May 2023 for $38.1 million at an auction at Sotheby's in New York City, breaking the reading for highest price ever paid for any manuscript.[1]
- called the "Codex Sassoon," this manuscript consisted of 792 parchment, animal skin pages, and weighed 26.5 pounds. It is missing only 12 full pages.
- On December 5, 2016, a Bible collection of the theologian Charles Caldwell Ryrie raised more than $7.3 million at a Sotheby's auction, of which a later Middle English version of the Wycliffite manuscript garnered millions.[2]
- "Eight pages of a first edition Gutenberg Bible" sold at Sotheby's for $970,000 on June 19, 2015, which "far surpassed its $500,000-700,000 estimate."[3]
- A complete Gutenberg Bible -- only 49 in existence -- has an estimated auction value of $5.4 million to $35 million. In 1987, one volume from a Gutenberg set sold for $5.4 million.[2]
- Bay Psalm Book, $16.5 million, which is an illustrated Book of Psalms that was initially printed in 1640 in the United States, with only 11 surviving copies today. A copy sold for $14 million in 2013.[2]