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An 1,100-Year-Old Hebrew Bible Sells for $38.1 Million
The Codex Sassoon is almost totally intact and was estimated to go for as high $50 million.
The one-of-a-kind Codex Sassoon was estimated to sell between $30 million and $50 million.
A 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible has sold for $38.1 million at Sotheby’s in New York.
The Codex Sassoon, which the auction house says is the oldest nearly complete example in the world, was purchased by the American Friends of the ANU — Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, as a permanent gift to the museum. Funds for the acquisition were supplied by a donation from Alfred Moses, an attorney and diplomat, and the Moses family.