It is set to hit the auction block at Sotheby’s New York this May. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW YORK - A Hebrew Bible billed as the oldest nearly-complete example in the world is set to hit the auction block at Sotheby’s New York this May with an estimate of US$30 million to US$50 million .
“We came to this estimate because this is the most significant document or manuscript to come up for sale in, I don’t know, forever,” says Ms Sharon Mintz, a senior Judaica specialist in Sotheby’s books and manuscripts department. The Codex Sassoon, which is being sold by the investor Jacqui Safra, dates to the late 9th or early 10th century, and contains all 24 books of the Hebrew Bible; it is missing some pages from Genesis.
Today its only contemporaries are the Aleppo Codex, which was assembled in the early 10th century, and the Leningrad Codex, a complete manuscript of the Bible which is thought to have been written about a century later. The parchment, she continues, “is extremely durable material, it’s a stable, strong structure, and the ink is good.”
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