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The Codex Sassoon Will Be Donated to the Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv

The Codex Sassoon was purchased for one of the highest prices for a manuscript sold at auction. It is set to be displayed at the ANU Museum in Israel.

Billed by Sotheby's as one of the most valuable books in human history, the Codex Sassoon did not see the expected frenzy of bids.

By Aleksandra Michalska and Christine Kiernan NEW YORK (Reuters) - The world's oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible sold for $38.1 million on Wednesd...

According to carbon-14 dating, the Codex Sassoon predates the Aleppo and Leningrad Codices

A Hebrew Bible more than 1,000 years old sold for $38.1 million in New York on Wednesday, setting a record

The world's oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible sold for $38.1m (about R732.9m) on Wednesday, Sotheby’s said, one of the highest prices ever for a book or document sold at auction.

The sale surpassed the $30.8 million that Microsoft founder Bill Gates paid for Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester manuscript in 1994

The earliest and most complete Hebrew Bible in existence, Codex Sassoon dates to the late ninth or early tenth century, and provides critical insights.

A 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible thought to be the world's oldest and most complete surviving copy of biblical manuscripts sold for $38.1 million in New...