SOTHEBY'S is auctioning an ancient Aramaic and Greek biblical manuscript owned by Westminster College in Cambridge. Steve Caruso has the story and some commentary at the Aramaic Blog. The Forbes article is here. A Wikipedia article (with all the usual caveats about such things) on Codex Climaci Rescriptus is here. The Evangelical Textual Criticism Blog was on the story (here and here) back in May. People on the Hugoye list are not happy (here and here).

As always, I hope that, if the manuscript must be sold, some philanthrophist will buy it and donate to a museum. Failing that, I hope the buyer will make sure to keep it available for scholars to study.