The page is featuring lyrics from Blonde on Blonde, Dylan’s seventh studio album. The manuscript is auctioned by Sotheby’s in London.

The online bidding for the item was opened on May 5 and will be available until  May 12. The price of the item was estimated between £12,000 and £15,000. The page features handwritten, alternative lyrics to the song ‘Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine’. 

What makes this so valuable is that the notes were handwritten over a typed page with lyrics that have never been recorded. It opens with the complaint ‘Like a rich man’s son/ like a poor fool in his prime/ how come you treat me so cruel’.  These lines end up being adapted for the song ‘Temporary Like Achilles’.

According to Ultimate Classic Rock Magazine, this is not the first time Bob Dylan’s lyrics are sold on auction. Earlier this year, the beloved songwriter’s handwriting for another song was on sale. The lyrics for ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’ were placed in a memorabilia auction with a starting price of $2.2 million.

The words for ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ were also offered at $1.6 million and ‘Lay, Lady, Lay’ started at $650,000.

In 2016 Bob Dylan was awarded with Nobel Prize in Literature. The motivation for the prize was  “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”