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How did the Codex come to the British Library?

April 26, 2017british codex library

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How did the Codex come to the British Library?

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The 694 pages held by the British Library were purchased for the British nation in 1933. Over half of the price paid, 100,000, was raised by means of a public fund-raising campaign. The seller, the Soviet government of Joseph Stalin, sold the Codex to obtain desperately needed foreign capital.