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15th Century Chinese Encyclopedia Volumes Sell For $9 Million
By Ben Hooper
July 8 (UPI) -- A pair of volumes from a 15th cen- tury Chinese encyclopedia sold for more than 1,000 times their estimated price when they fetched a high bid of more than $9 million.
Paris-based auc- tion house Beaussant Lefevre said the volumes from the Yongle Dadian, the encyclopedia commissioned by Yongle Emperor, the third ruler of the Ming Dynasty, sold for more than $9 mil-
lion in a Tuesday auction.
The volumes had been expected to sell for up to $9,000, the auc- tion house said.
The Yongle Dadian was com- piled by
more than 2,000 scholars working from 1404 and 1408, and the original was com- posed of 22,877 chapters, making it the largest encyclopedia known to history.
The auction house said the two volumes auc- tioned Tuesday were copies com-
missioned by the Jiajing Emperor in 1562.
Only 400 vol- umes from the encyclopedia are known to still exist -- about 4 percent of the original encyclo- pedia -- and 24 of them are housed at the British Library.
Beaussant Lefevre said one of the volumes sold in Tuesday's auction was about the lakes of China and the other holds descriptions of funeral rites.
Arrest Made After Man Allegedly Tied Used Condoms To Cars In Mississauga
By Matt Dionne
Peel Regional Police have made an arrest in con- nection to a series of indecent acts committed
in Mississauga.
Throughout
July, 74-year-old Peter Melegos allegedly tied used condoms to unoccupied vehi- cles in the park- ing lots of shop- ping centers around the city.
Today (July 13), Melegos
was arrested and charged with 11 counts of Mischief Over, two counts of Criminal Harassment, one count of Commit an Indecent Act and one count of Voyeurism. He will appear at the Ontario Court of Justice in the City of Brampton on September 18, in answer to
the charges.
The investigation is still on-going, and investigators believe more inci- dents could have occurred across the GTA.
Anyone with rele- vant information is urged to con- tact the 11 Division Criminal Investigation Bureau directly at 905-456-5840.