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The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten parchment volume containing a nearly complete Hebrew Bible, was made in the ninth or 10th century.
The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten parchment volume containing a nearly complete Hebrew Bible, was made in the ninth or 10th century.
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. The Codex Sassoon -- which dates to the late ninth to early 10th century -- is the earliest near-complete Hebrew Bible known to still exist.It was sold by Sotheby's following a four-minute bidding battle between two bidders, the auction house said in a statement.
The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten parchment volume containing a nearly complete Hebrew Bible, was made in the ninth or 10th century.
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