A Jewish woman Holy Bible millennium, the oldest known and nearly complete Bible, was purchased in auction yesterday (17/5) at New York against the record amount of $38.1 million and will be offered to the Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, Sotheby’s announced. This amount represents a record for a handwritten book.
The book, known as the ‘Codex Sassoon’, named after its famous owner, David Solomon Sassoon (died 1942), was bought by former ambassador and American philanthropist Alfred Moses and his family, “for the benefit of the American Friends of the ANU- Museum of the Jewish People and donated» in it, reports Sotheby’s, which carried out the sale, in the press release.
The Bible, which reportedly dates from the 10th century AD. or even from the late 9th century, it was on display before the sale in this museum located on the campus of Tel Aviv University.
According to the house, “the hammer fell after a four-minute battle between two determined buyers».
This Sassoon codex, in apparently excellent condition with only a few pages missing, brings together 24 books of the Hebrew Bible drawn from the famous Dead Sea Scrolls dating from the 3rd century BC. “This Bible was written around the year 900, in Israel or Syria»Sharon Meetz, a specialist in Jewish texts at Sotheby’s, had explained to AFP.
A sales receipt indicates that the Bible was sold in the year 1000 and kept in the synagogue of Makishin in northeastern Syria until about the year 1400.
“The manuscript then disappears for about 500 years and reappears in 1929 when it is offered for sale to David Solomon Sassoon, one of the greatest collectors of Jewish manuscripts»according to Sharon Meads.
Source: News Beast
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