A man from the state of Maine made the discovery of his life when he bought a framed page that had Latin script and musical notations for only $28 Dollars. The buyer later discovered that the item was valued at $10 thousand dollars.
The man, named Will Sideri, said he was at a home sale in the city of Waterville when he saw the framed page and it reminded him of something he had seen during a course he took at Colby School College on medieval manuscripts.
Sideri ended up buying the page for $75 dollars and then went to show it to his former teacher, Megan Cook. Cook sent photos of the page to a friend and academic colleague, Lisa Fagin Davis, and they both agreed that it looked like it was a piece from the Beauvais Missal, a manuscript written in Beauvais, France, in the late 13th century.
The Beauvais Missal, which was part of a prayer book used by a priest for a liturgy, had all its 309 intact pages when sold by newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1942, but in subsequent years the pages were separated and sold individually .
Davis said he has located 114 of the original pages, including a in the Colby College collection.
Cook tweeted a photo comparing Colby’s page to the one Sideri found, which is in better condition.
Davis said the Sideri page could be worth up to $28 thousand dollars, but If deri said she doesn’t plan to sell it.
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