Irish hotel owner sells 10th-century Hebrew Bible for $38.1 million
Jacqui Safra, an investor who owns two hotels in County Kerry, sold the centuries-old Codex Sassoon via Sotheby's in New York on May 17.
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Jacqui Safra, an investor who owns two hotels in County Kerry, sold the centuries-old Codex Sassoon via Sotheby's in New York on May 17.
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A Hebrew Bible more than 1,000 years old sold for $38.1 million in New York on Wednesday, setting a record for the most valuable manuscript ever sold at auction.
A 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible, one of the world’s oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, has sold for $38m in New York on Wednesday. The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten parchment volume containing a nearly complete Hebrew Bible, was purchased by Alfred H Moses, a former United States ambassador to Romania. Moses acquired the ancient text on behalf |
A 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible that is one of the world’s oldest surviving biblical manuscripts has sold for $38 million in New York.